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		kuschku on March 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of the browser user-agent string (2008) Today, Google Search itself uses that. Try using Google.com from Firefox Mobile and from Chrome Mobile, and you'll see a major difference. To get 95% of the functionality working, you need to fake a Chrome UA. In 2018.

ReverseCold on March 6, 2018 [–]

Just tried this with latest versions of Chrome and FF on Android. The Firefox one loads what looks like the desktop site from 2013 but with bigger font; the chrome one loads a regular modern UI.

Faking the user agent header (yay, FF on Android supports all the desktop extensions) makes everything normal on Firefox.

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