Mobile versions of web sites, instead of web versions.

[newbie3]

There are some web sites - 2-3 - which load only their mobile versions on Pale Moon (I use it on laptop). It started to happen some months ago. When I try on MS Edge, the web versions of the same are loaded. How to solve this problem?

[dark_moon]

This is because the website(s) use then useragent sniffing and because of the Goanna in the string, they think you use a mobile phone.
Bad websites check for "Goa" in the string, which is a smartphone and so you get the mobile site.

The only real solution is to contact the site admin to fix this bad usersniffing. Look at the other threads about this!
Anyway you can fix it on your side to with change your useragent, but thats only a workaround.

[newbie3]

This is because the website(s) use then useragent sniffing and because of the Goanna in the string, they think you use a mobile phone.
Bad websites check for "Goa" in the string, which is a smartphone and so you get the mobile site.

The only real solution is to contact the site admin to fix this bad usersniffing. Look at the other threads about this!
Anyway you can fix it on your side to with change your useragent, but thats only a workaround.

I'm not sure that I understand completely what you've said and I'm not sure that the admins of these web sites will listen to me to fix this bug.

[Moonchild]

If you don't let them know, they will for sure never do anything about it.
It's quite simple: you're using a desktop browser (Pale Moon) and the website detects it as if it is a mobile phone. That's an error on their behalf and they should fix it.

[newbie3]

If you don't let them know, they will for sure never do anything about it.
It's quite simple: you're using a desktop browser (Pale Moon) and the website detects it as if it is a mobile phone. That's an error on their behalf and they should fix it.

OK. I'll write them about it. Thanks for the feedback.

[newbie3]

@Moonchild - Unfortunately, none of the three web sites, which I visit regularly and have this "mobile version" problem responded to my message or fixed anything.

[dark_moon]

Then you know that sites don't care about their users and you need to use the useragent workaround.

[megaman]

Then you know that sites don't care about their users and you need to use the useragent workaround.

They care about their users but they rather tend to the majority than to the minority.
If I had a choice to make software and maintaining for operating systems, I would work with the one that has the most users(Windows), because it is the most income.

That's why it's hard to get developers that make Windows Phone variants of Android and iOS apps because Windows Phone is a pimple compared to the other OSes being human-sized.

[coffeebreak]

@newbie3 --
This post has instructions for making a user agent override:
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12090#p85075

You could also, when contacting a site, ask them to update their version of the 'Mobile Detect' UA detection library to the most recent release, which hopefully will fix some of these issues.

See here for background:
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12151

[newbie3]

Thanks for the posts, guys.

@dark_moon
@coffeebreak

How to use the useragent workaround?

I followed these steps, but the problem remains:

To tell a site a different useragent:

Open up about:config
Right-click, select New -> String
Name it general.useragent.override.domain.com where domain.com is the domain of the site you're wanting to give a different UA.
The value should be a complete UA string, e.g. "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; rv:45.0) gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0"

[alex04]

i use this solution to fix the problem

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php ... 841#p76225

[newbie3]

@alex04 - yes, that technique fixed the problem. Thank you very much!