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qWoodpecker | 3 months ago

What's funny is that desktop versions of websites in a lot of cases are responsive, and work fine on small screen. BUT at the same time the mobile version is crappy and lacks some features (or just shows "download our app").

Recently I've set up Firefox on Android so that it always run in desktop mode. I needed to also change screen width in about:config, because otherwise everything is too small. But after this websites seem to work better.

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chii|3 months ago

> But after this websites seem to work better.

quite likely that the site has a mobile "mode" and a small-screen mode (for desktop), each made by different teams. some mobile mode website is fine, but others suck. Where as the small-screen mode for desktop tend to be made by the same team/person as the main site (it's a css media query after all) - so it's likely to be more coherent.

cubefox|3 months ago

What is the relevant setting in about:config?

tmseidman|3 months ago

It seems to be browser.viewport.desktopWidth; I found 500 to be a decent starting point on my phone.

henriquemaia|3 months ago

What a great suggestion. I've followed your advice and it works. What a treat!

Thanks for sharing.