Ever want to view websites in their Full Desktop display mode? How about watch The Daily Show or Colbert Report on your Android device? Comedy Central is an example of a site that automatically switches to their Mobile site, which doesn't allow viewing full episodes. We want full episodes because our Android hardware is fully capable of viewing full Desktop sites including Adobe Flash content. In this post, we'll go over how to view all websites in full Desktop mode on Dolphin HD Browser.
When we visit a website, our web browser's User Agent lets a website know the capabilities of our browser. Then the website serves up the page in a readable format suitable for our device whether it be on a PC, Mac, Android, or iPhone. The problem with Dolphin HD is that it's built in User Agent still shows Android in the User Agent String, so some sites we visit still serve up their Mobile site.
To fix this, we're going to paste in our own Custom User Agent String:
Go to More => Settings => Dolphin Settings => User Agent => Custom
Then Copy and Paste the following User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0.1)
Then go to Data Storage Settings => Clear data
Check Clear cache
Check Clear history
Check Clear all cookie data
Press OK
Exit out of Dolphin HD
Open up Dolphin HD, and now any site you visit will display in full Desktop Mode.
If you're curious what the User Agent String above means, then this is what websites see when you visit:
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| Mozilla/5.0 | Web Browser
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| Windows NT 6.1 | Operating System | Windows 7 |
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| WOW64 | Web Browser | 32-bit Internet Explorer running on 64-bit Windows | |
| AppleWebKit/535.7 | Rendering Engine | WebKit Rendering Engine |
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| KHTML, like Gecko |
| Apple WebKit is based on KDE KHTML | |
| Chrome/16.0.912.63 | Web Browser | Google Chrome Browser |
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Enjoy
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