1103587 - Allow users to choose how the Browser introduces itself to web server as mobile or desktop

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Browser, enhancement)

Description

[mac]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Tablet; rv:36.0) Gecko/36.0 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20141122020839




Expected results:

It should be possible to set how the Browser indroduces itself to a web server, as a mobile or desktop.
There should be general setting in Settings App that is default for every new web session in the Browser. Additionally the Browser should allow users to quick change the setting for particular web sessions that users don't have to go to Settings App every time they want to change mobile/desktop for their current web session in the Browser.

There are many web pages in the Internet that don't allow users to change freely between desktop and mobile versions like Facebook.com or 24.play.pl, in such case user can't do anything and must work in a version that was opened.

I.e. I use hamachi (Alcatel One Touch Fire with b2g 2.2) with Facebook App taken from the Marketplace and it opens same as on Desktop when same on Flatfish (Foxconn F1 with b2g 2.2) opens as mobile. With the feature I would change freely between desktop and mobile to get access to a content in a way that is the best for me as a user in a while (slower but reeach or faster but worse).

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

I don't know whether we can achieve a request mobile version for sites.

Comment 2

[mac]

As I can see Android has option 'Request desktop site' when all sites are opened as mobile version.

Comment 3

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

NI on Wilfred for backlog consideration.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on