Comments on: My laptop thinks it’s a mobile

By: Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:00:51 +0000

Erin and Josh, sorry guys can’t really help you. I only just managed to figure out the cause of my problem, but i’m sure there are many other reasons why the same or similar thing might be happening. It’s probably going to become a more regular occurrence now that mobile optimised sites are now very much expected.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:53:18 +0000

I have the same problem, only slightly stranger – the Google homepage is a regular desktop version, but the search results show up as the mobile version.

The only other site that i have this problem with is physorg.com .

What gives?

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:58:02 +0000

I have the same problem, but it’s not just yahoo or paypal, it’s all of my social network sites also (Facebook, Twitter, Formspring), and also photobucket. and they’re stuck in mobile and I don’t have the wmlbrowser plug in. I’m on an HPmini, so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it…

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:45:21 +0000

What a relief!

Just found this post and I just removed the wmlbrowser” plugin… and Ho -la la!

Yahoo, and PayPal is working again as normal… no switching to Mobile version of the sites!

Thanks Pat for the fix… I am looking for this for months!

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.