Comments on: My laptop thinks it’s a mobile

By: TheVanguardian

TheVanguardian — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 02:12:07 +0000

YAY! Thank you all for this post. I was having similar problem and found the solution here. I uninstalled the wmlbrowser Firefox add-on. And so far the websites that were displaying mobile versions appear fine now. Thanks all…

By: Rog

Rog — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:38:10 +0000

Genius solution – remove IE install FF. Worked first time!

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:07:57 +0000

@Rog perhaps there’s a plugin for IE that’s similar to the “wmlbrowser” plugin for FF that caused my problem. Other than that, I don’t use IE enough to be able to diagnose the problem.

By: Rog

Rog — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:20:44 +0000

Hi Guys,

I now have this problem using internet explorer – can’t seem to solve the problem at all. Ebay is the only website that where a mobile version is displayed. Yahoo is fine for the time being. Any suggestions? Rog

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:29:18 +0000

Thanks @Isaac, but my problem wasn’t caused by cookies but rather a Firefox plugin. Glad to hear you got your cookie problem sorted though.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:01:39 +0000

I had the same problem for 2 months with my computer showing up as “www.m.yahoo.com” (the mobile version of Yahoo) and finally I deleted the cookies from Firefox and that fixed it. I never had the problem using Internet Explorer, only in Firefox. Hope that helps.

By: Raj D

Raj D — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:40:31 +0000

Yeah i beleive there would be many people but i’ve tried many key words and can’t find any blogs – the closest i found was yours.

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:51:24 +0000

Sorry Raj, I have used a similar mobile broadband card to what you describe, but I never had any issues like this. Do you know if it’s a common problem? If it is there should be many people out there blogging, twittering or commenting on forums. It’s likely they have an explanation, if not a solution.

By: Raj D

Raj D — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:00:41 +0000

I have a similar problem.
I use a 3 3Gsim in my laptop when i have no other connection. When I use that connection i can only view mobile versions of the sites. is there anyway of disbaling this?
I used both firefox and ie7. Any help?

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:34:20 +0000

YAAAAAAAAAY! I have solved the problem! It was being caused by the wmlbrowser Firefox add-on. All I had to do was disable or uninstall it and I can now visit Flickr, Yahoo! etc and see the normal version. I don't know when that add-on was installed, possibly by a previous user on this machine, or possibly when I started using the .mobi emulator. Either way I hadn't noticed it until this week. Such relief.