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2/12/10
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jefferai

Please support Firefox Mobile (Fennec) and MicroB

The n900 has two great web browsers: the Mozilla-based MicroB, and now Firefox Mobile, an official Firefox port for Maemo and some Windows Mobile devices. Both are extremely capable, just like Mobile Safari. Unfortunately, neither of these are detected as mobile browsers for Google sites, which means that Sync is utterly broken -- it says that you need to visit the page on a mobile phone, even when you're visiting it via your n900. It is not easy/impossible to fully change the user agent, and attempts to change part of the user agent string that *is* modifiable to look like an iPhone still did not allow me to access Sync.

Please, include these browsers in your database as legit mobile browsers so that browsing your sites on the n900 is easy and pleasant (and works!)

The relevant user-agent strings are:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2.1) Gecko/20100126 Firefox/3.6.1 Fennec/1.0.0
(Firefox Mobile; keyword to check against is probably just Fennec)

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20091127 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.5.6 RX-51 N900
(MicroB; keyword should probably be "Maemo Browser" and optionally the "N900" part to detect individual device capabilities)

Always include:

Device: n900
Carrier: T-Mobile USA
Country / Language: USA
OS / Browser / build number (if applicable): PR1.1
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2/18/10
Original Poster
jefferai
Huh.

Today, going to calendar.google.com from MicroB shows me a mobile view, and a very sparse one -- not the nice iPhone one (which the browser is fully capable of handling) and no option to switch to the Desktop view like on the iPhone.

Worse, going to m.google.com/sync still shows the desktop view which doesn't allow me to configure my sync options. So the user-agent handling isn't even consistent between the two sites -- on Sync where I need the mobile view it shows me the desktop one, and on Calendar where I don't want the mobile view (or want the much nicer iPhone one) it shows me the mobile one -- and all with the same user-agent.

Can this get fixed? Can we get the MicroB and Firefox Mobile browsers using the iPhone mobile sites, including the options to switch to the desktop views?
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