Could someone post a desktop browser user agent string? Mobile is nice and all, but I'm really hoping to get back to something closer to the N900's mobile experience where 90% of all sites just treated me to the grown up version of their pages without a fuss.

Does anyone know:

If I change the UA string to desktop Chrome, will Amazon Cloud Reader work?

What's the chmod command to enter once I put the grob file back in usr/bin ?

you need to do:
chown root /usr/bin/grob
chmod 755 /usr/bin/grob

(and Amazon cloud reader does not appear to work. or at least, not with the user agent setting i used. boo.)

Thanks. I tried using the iOS 5 string but now Web browser doesn't start. I'm gonna revert to original again.

I really want this to happen. Anyone willing to make this an easy solution as simple as a script or maybe even making it into app? Really tired of not being able to access different sites especially google features such as Maps or just being directed to a basic mobile version of it.

i think it's the length of the string. The browser in my opinion works only if the length of the user agent matches the characters of the default settings.

Hence, having to add a "0" at the end of the android string to match the default's length. The iOS string on the other hand is much longer.

The iOS 5 string appears to be too long, therefore it overwrites some other parts of the file.

Has anyone done this stuff with Fennec yet? (I would *love* to get the FT HTML5 app running, and also Kindle Cloud Reader.)

on fennec, simply install the extension "Phonny" and change the UA.

Its much more convenient and you can choose from: default, ios, android (nexus), android (galaxy tab), firefox desktop and ie.

OK: try this to get the iOS user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3

Hmmm: the FT app might be actually working...
It's got to 'loading' which is a nice start.
Google Music, by the way, fails with a DOM security error