Windows 10: UWP browser for portrait browsing with forced mobile user agent

Good day!

This is solely for touch based portrait browsing on a Windows tablet. Edge works how I want in 50% of the cases because a lot of sites are responsive and you just have to zoom to a certain level to get the site to go from desktop adaption to mobile. But this does not apply to one single Google related site (probably intentional from Google). I'll take YouTube as an example. On my Android tablet I get this nice mobile oriented layout (N.B. this is NOT the YouTube app but m.youtube.com in a browser)





A nice, one column structure with no sidescrolling possible at all. On my Windows tablet going to m.youtube.com or the non mobile URL in Edge only gives me the desktop version. Even if I zoom to 1000% it does not change. I do not prefer to watch videos in portrait mode if that's what you think, but this applies to anything google related, search, translate, you name it. Using these in portrait mode is not a good experience. Can Edge, or some other UWP browser, force a strict mobile user agent?

If you do feel the urge to let me know how inferior my Windows usage is or how stupid this question is, please go ahead if that makes you feel better about yourself, but I'll appreciate anything constructive.

:)

 

IMDB on E6 - normal not mobile version of web pages

I'll second that.



A solution to your problem is to install the Opera Mobile for Symbian browser. Overall it is vastly superior to the default Nokia browser anyway.



Being forced to mobile versions of websites, even if you specifically enter the URL of the main website, is really the fault of a badly written website. A well written website will detect a mobile device and provide you with a link to a mobile version of
the site but not forcibly redirect you to it.



Anyway, Opera Mobile has an advanced user option to change the browser user agent from "mobile" to spoof that of a "desktop". This makes it fairly successful (not always 100%) at getting around forced redirects to mobile versions of websites.

 

Can't see text in form fields in IE

Browser: Microsoft IE Mobile

Platform: WinCE

User Agent OS: Windows CE (Pocket PC) - Version 5.2

CPU class: ARM

Version: MR2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

Minor Version: 7.11

User Agent: 8900b/MR2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

User Language: en-us

System Language: en-us

Any form field, any website. The letters do show up when the phone is closed (portrait mode), but when it is open (landscape) they disappear.