GeraldKo: Benson: Benson, we started this on a thread about the iPhone App Store, but I figure it's better to continue that conversation here.

I've been using the URL method that you suggest for months now. When I said I wish there were a "simple" way, what I should have said is I wish there were a quick way. The problem is that it takes my NIT 3 minutes after I click on the URL for changing the useragent before it gets to the about:config page, and then another 3 minutes after I click to make the change. (And that's if I do it off of a restarted MicroB with a cleared cache. Otherwise the browser usually just hangs.) Is it this slow for you, Benson (or whoever else uses this approach to change the useragent string)?

No way!!! And there's nothing to click to make the change. It makes the change when you first go there... you know, in the 5 seconds or so it takes to load the page. (Obviously, that's for me; not implying yours isn't 3 minutes slow.)

Course, I haven't done this in a while; more a novelty thing, since Modest became useful. (The only thing I used a different UA for was GMail iPhone, with Greasemonkey, of course.)

So I'll try it, and be back in a minute (or perhaps 3?)...

I have also used the URL for changeing the UserAgent to iPhone mode and once you click on the set preferences button, it takes only a few secs (3 sec maybe) for it to be enabled.

Then onto happy browsing of iPhone optimised apps (mainly stock app, weather app, facebook and gCalendar and GReader).

OK, it's 7 to 8 seconds from hitting go (after pasting the URL) till the page is fully loaded here. No reason it would be different from a bookmark, and I haven't got my bookmarks set up on Diablo (production) yet, so I didn't bother with that.

That's with a browser session that's been rolling this past hour and a half, maybe.


Edit: You don't have "Fit width" on, do you? That can cause insane troubles.

Here is a list with a long list of websites optimized for mobile:
http://cantoni.mobi/

Wow thanks for that link - really comprehensive list of mobile site URL's
Mind you all of these are not necessary iPhone optimised - but simple mobile versions.

Thanks though for this list

It's nice to have the mobile versions though, simply because most of them don't load useless junk like their desktop versions do. Which usually slows down the browser.

I have been using this successfully for a while to get the iPhone style gmail pages. Combined with sliderotate it is especially nice. For some reason, for the past several days when I load the iPhone gmail page the format changes after initial page load and becomes very narrow. I have tried this with and without sliderotate installed and even on a freshly flashed OS. Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone have a workaround?

so this appears to coincide with an iphone gmail upgrade on July 24.

See http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/news/8/ to use useragentswitcher