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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 cr

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.

cubefox 11mo ago
What is the relevant setting in about:config?
- tmseidman 11mo ago
  It seems to be browser.viewport.desktopWidth; I found 500 to be a decent starting point on my phone.
  - cubefox 11mo ago
    Thanks, it works! (I had to access about:config via chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml)
    - moho 11mo ago
      While you're there flip general.aboutConfig.enabled to true so you won't have to use the silly config.xhtml URL again.
      - henriquemaia 11mo ago
        What a great thread! Thank you and previous poster for sharing how to get that working.
      - cubefox 11mo ago
        That setting unfortunately resets after restarting the browser. But the width setting stays.
      - Lamprey 10mo ago
        Alternatively, you can download Firefox Nightly instead of regular. "about:config" just works in Nightly. No fuss. You can sideload extensions in Nightly, too, after you activate the developer options. I don't think they've added that to regular, as yet? At least not with as much flexibility. Anyway, I'm gonna try this mobile desktop mode thing and see how it goes. Thank you to everyone!
        moho 10mo ago
        Installing extensions from file is available on the release build as well, after enabling dev options. I think the only difference is nightly allows installing unsigned extensions, which I don't personally have a need for (as getting a personal/non-published extension signed is very easy).
chii 11mo 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.
henriquemaia 11mo ago
What a great suggestion. I've followed your advice and it works. What a treat! Thanks for sharing.
aembleton 11mo ago
To avoid the download our app nonsense, you can add this filter to uBO: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/refs/heads/master/stayingonbrowser/Staying%20On%20The%20Phone%20Browser https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/ref...

cubefox 11mo ago

What is the relevant setting in about:config?

tmseidman 11mo ago
It seems to be browser.viewport.desktopWidth; I found 500 to be a decent starting point on my phone.
- cubefox 11mo ago
  Thanks, it works! (I had to access about:config via chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml)
  - moho 11mo ago
    While you're there flip general.aboutConfig.enabled to true so you won't have to use the silly config.xhtml URL again.
    - henriquemaia 11mo ago
      What a great thread! Thank you and previous poster for sharing how to get that working.
    - cubefox 11mo ago
      That setting unfortunately resets after restarting the browser. But the width setting stays.
    - Lamprey 10mo ago
      Alternatively, you can download Firefox Nightly instead of regular. "about:config" just works in Nightly. No fuss. You can sideload extensions in Nightly, too, after you activate the developer options. I don't think they've added that to regular, as yet? At least not with as much flexibility. Anyway, I'm gonna try this mobile desktop mode thing and see how it goes. Thank you to everyone!
      - moho 10mo ago
        Installing extensions from file is available on the release build as well, after enabling dev options. I think the only difference is nightly allows installing unsigned extensions, which I don't personally have a need for (as getting a personal/non-published extension signed is very easy).

chii 11mo 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.

henriquemaia 11mo ago

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

aembleton 11mo ago

To avoid the download our app nonsense, you can add this filter to uBO: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/refs/heads/master/stayingonbrowser/Staying%20On%20The%20Phone%20Browser https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/ref...