Desktop version request

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Aka "Request Desktop Site", "Request Desktop Version"

Tags: responsive

• Safari Mobile 8-?: Switch User Agent String ^{1 2 3}
• Android browser: Switch User Agent String
• Firefox Mobile (Android): Switch User Agent String
• Firefox Mobile (iOS): Switch User Agent String
• Dolphin: Switch User Agent String and change screen resolution and scaling (affect media queries)

TODO: List UA Strings

iOS (iPad):
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/30.0.1599.16 Mobile/11B511 Safari/8536.25 (9E5413BC-7DB8-4B71-B876-69EDA4BAC03D)
request desktop site changes it to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.53.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10 (9E5413BC-7DB8-4B71-B876-69EDA4BAC03D)
Chrome for Android:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76K) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.166 Mobile Safari/535.19
request desktop site changes it to:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.45 Safari/535.19
Firefox for Android has a similar feature that does switch the UA in exactly the way that this script should help with. Example:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:25.0) Gecko/25.0 Firefox/25.0
changes to
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0

• How to make responsive sites better respect the "Request a desktop site" feature on modern mobile browsers - Detect the UA or add link to force desktop / mobile
• Firefox for Android — Notes (37.0.2) — Mozilla
• iOS version history — Wikipedia
• iOS 8 makes it easier to access desktop websites in Safari

Footnotes

1. Safari (iOS 8): Request the desktop site while entering in a web address (scroll up) ↩

2. Safari (iOS 9): Request Desktop Version via Share Sheet ↩

3. Safari and Safari View Controller (iOS 9.2): Long tapping the Reload button in now gives options to Reload Without Content Blockers and Request Desktop Site ↩