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[Nicolas DERIVE <kalon33@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Rationale:

There's a lot of situation where website detect Ubuntu webbrowser as
"android", and want to force us to download the Android app. There's
also some situations where we prefer to display desktop version of a
website instead of the mobile one.

Both these situations can be fixed on the website side, but we all know
that it won't solve the whole problem. Adding specific overrides may
also improve the situation, but we won't be able to add overrides for
everything, and sometimes it's great to be able to view both mobile and
desktop websites, depending on the situation.

Solution:

It would be great to add, as Chrome or Firefox already do on mobile
platform, a menu item to switch between mobile and desktop browser-
agents, and reload the webpage.

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1505722

Title:
  Add ability to choose to view Desktop version of a website

Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Rationale:

  There's a lot of situation where website detect Ubuntu webbrowser as
  "android", and want to force us to download the Android app. There's
  also some situations where we prefer to display desktop version of a
  website instead of the mobile one.

  Both these situations can be fixed on the website side, but we all
  know that it won't solve the whole problem. Adding specific overrides
  may also improve the situation, but we won't be able to add overrides
  for everything, and sometimes it's great to be able to view both
  mobile and desktop websites, depending on the situation.

  Solution:

  It would be great to add, as Chrome or Firefox already do on mobile
  platform, a menu item to switch between mobile and desktop browser-
  agents, and reload the webpage.

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