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Helen40


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christ wrote:

The more complicated way is by modifying your user agent.


Context: In the olden days, sites used to present different pages to mobile or computers (mobile site URLs began "m."). Nowadays they present one page, which is served differently dependent upon the user agent of the reader. One can - in some cases - modify the user agent that the server sees.

Method: In Safari on my mac (other browsers and other types of computer are available, and will have similar settings) I go to "Safari Settings" and on the "General" sheet, at the bottom, there is a checkbox for "Show features for web developers" - click this box so that it gets a tick in it:Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 13.39.21.png

 

 

Close Safari and open it again, then there should be a "Develop" Menu, from this menu one may choose "User Agent", and a sub-menu opens up, from which one may choose.

 

Screenshot 2026-06-30 at 13.39.38.png

 

Recovery is the reverse: go back to the "Develop" menu and select the Default User Agent, and then go back to Safari settings and deselect the "Show features for web developers" box. Close and reopen Safari to return to your normally scheduled programming.

 Thanks. I tried the 'm' trick, but that didn't work. I then went into dev mode (says inspect element on PC) and was able to toggle it there into mobile mode (toggle), but could figure out how to save it, so when I came out of dev mode it reverted back
I'm using Opera.

Any ideas please?



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I'm sorry, on Safari the selection is automatically saved, so I had assumed others would work similarly: is there no "save" option when you select what you need?

... on the other hand there is no requirement to leave "developer mode" on the browser, it doesn't do any harm to leave it in developer mode for the duration of Wimbledon (or thereafter). It makes more options available, but doesn't do any harm.

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It's responsive resizing, you simply need to resize it to a narrow window.

Or if you want to get fancy and have it in view while viewing other tabs, in Opera if you drag the tab into the window, you should get 4 grey boxes appear. Drag into either the left or right most box and the tab will then appear in a vertical split screen. The OoP should be shown in vertical order. Resize the split to a size that you wish and you can use the rest of the browser window for another tab.  

 Screenshot 2026-07-01 120425_small.pngScreenshot 2026-07-01 121223_small.png

 



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Helen40


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rist wrote:

I'm sorry, on Safari the selection is automatically saved, so I had assumed others would work similarly: is there no "save" option when you select what you need?

... on the other hand there is no requirement to leave "developer mode" on the browser, it doesn't do any harm to leave it in developer mode for the duration of Wimbledon (or thereafter). It makes more options available, but doesn't do any harm.

 I might be in the wrong place, but my screen in dev mode looks like this!

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Lambda_ wrote:

It's responsive resizing, you simply need to resize it to a narrow window.

Or if you want to get fancy and have it in view while viewing other tabs, in Opera if you drag the tab into the window, you should get 4 grey boxes appear. Drag into either the left or right most box and the tab will then appear in a vertical split screen. The OoP should be shown in vertical order. Resize the split to a size that you wish and you can use the rest of the browser window for another tab.  

 Screenshot 2026-07-01 120425_small.pngScreenshot 2026-07-01 121223_small.png

 

 I'm not getting the grey boxes appearing - have played around with settings and enabled split screen mode, but no joy.

Scrub that - it is splitting screen, so now trying to resize it (as the normal divider I'd expect for split screens isn't coming up)



-- Edited by Helen40 on Wednesday 1st of July 2026 11:47:02 AM

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Helen40 wrote:
rist wrote:

I'm sorry, on Safari the selection is automatically saved, so I had assumed others would work similarly: is there no "save" option when you select what you need?

... on the other hand there is no requirement to leave "developer mode" on the browser, it doesn't do any harm to leave it in developer mode for the duration of Wimbledon (or thereafter). It makes more options available, but doesn't do any harm.

 I might be in the wrong place, but my screen in dev mode looks like this!

Untitled.png

 I think that you can close the right hand window (using the x in the top right), but maybe not: if not then sorry for leading you up the garden path!



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When I do that, it reverts back to the laptop setting
Oh well, thanks for trying.

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Sorry. I was never much good at tech support even when I was being paid for doing it.

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