Facebook.com Redirecting to M.Facebook.com
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Running 5.1.2567.57 on Windows 10 21H1, and for the last two (?) Vivaldi builds, my attempts to visit Facebook.com redirect to the mobile site (M.Facebook.com). I did have Facebook installed a Web panel in the sidebar and thought that may have been confusing things, so I removed the Web panel and deleted all cookies from *.facebook.com — but I'm still getting redirected when I type in https://www.facebook.com/ or https://facebook.com.
Could Facebook be making assumptions based on the user-agent? (It might be nice for users to have the ability to set custom user-agent strings for different domains — handy for edge-case sites.)
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@secrethq Are you running a fairly narrow browser screen?
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@secrethq so, here's what I did that solved that problem. First, I created it by installing a facebook panel and letting it show mobile version.
Then I closed the browser facebook page, closed the panel, followed my bookmark to facebook, and it still opened with m.facebook.
switched the panel to "show desktop version" and bookmark to facebook still showed m.facebook.
Deleted the panel, deleted all facebook cookies, deleted history and cache.
Opened my facebook bookmark, and it was back to regular facebook. I think the key is no panel to accidentally fetch the m.facebook version, no facebook cookies, no history or cache with facebook in it. That gives you a clean slate and you can navigate facebook in the normal fashion on the desktop.
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@ayespy said in Facebook.com Redirecting to M.Facebook.com:
@secrethq Are you running a fairly narrow browser screen?
Not really. 1366x768 on the screen I was looking at the time. (Though that was a solid thought I hadn't considered!)
@ayespy said in Facebook.com Redirecting to M.Facebook.com:
I think the key is no panel to accidentally fetch the m.facebook version, no facebook cookies, no history or cache with facebook in it. That gives you a clean slate and you can navigate facebook in the normal fashion on the desktop.
I had tried removing the panel and the cookies, but deleting my cached files is what got me over the hump and got me back to the standard Facebook desktop site.
Thanks, @Ayespy!
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This is a great solution for the moment, but I wonder what happened that got Vivaldi confused between the Web panel and the desktop site in the main window. (I hadn't encountered this problem until recently.)
Should we file a bug report on this behavior? A feature request to somehow separate the panels' cache from the main browser cache?
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Vivaldi didn't get confused, but, by design, tries to save time by serving a cached page first.
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@ayespy said in Facebook.com Redirecting to M.Facebook.com:
Vivaldi didn't get confused, but, by design, tries to save time by serving a cached page first.
I believe this is a new behavior, though. I've used the Facebook Web panel to view FB mobile in the past while having FB desktop open in the main window.
Interesting that I got redirected in the main window. I would think Vivaldi has separate cached pages for facebook.com and for m.facebook.com (both of which change frequently, so the cached versions probably aren't used often) — so if cached content caused this behavior, it may have been a cached browser-detection page at facebook.com that had been used in the Web panel and then got served up in the main window.
I may experiment by creating a Web panel specifically for m.facebook.com (as opposed to facebook.com).
