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I installed successfully Firefox, but some sites (Facebook) show mobile sites.
How can I change the User agent ?

Adding general.useragent.override is not possible.

Any ideas on this ?
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UPDATE:

I've got it:

/home/user/.mozilla/fennec/xxxxxxx.default/prefs.js

where xxxxxxx stands for a random base64 string

add a line

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090216 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14");
or any other user agent you want (here the Firefox for Linux as example).
Restart Firefox and voilą !
 

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Hi! How to do something similar on N900?
Thanks!
 
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Originally Posted by TheIllTemperedSampo View Post
Hi! How to do something similar on N900?
Thanks!
same as above or open about:config in firefox and then create a new key of type string - "general.useragent.override"

value can be be whatever user agent you like e.g., desktop firefox uses:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11
 
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That worked!! Thanks a lot
 
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There is also an mobile addon called Phony which u can use to switch useragent on the fly.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/addon/phony/
 
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i use phony, but it doesm't always work. will try the prefs change.
 
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