Facebook on Safari 6.1.6 on OSX 10.7.5 now auto switchers to mobile version...

[adammusic]

Anyone else experiencing this?
This is how Twitter has been for years, but now it looks like Facebook does it too.
Both auto change to mobile version.

 

[camardelle]

It just started for me today. Not crazy about it.

 

[adammusic]

It just started for me today. Not crazy about it.

terrible.
now i have to switch to chrome until i get a new laptop.

 

[Jerome Rehioui]

Hi guys, had the same issue… But I found a solution:

- Quit Safari.
- Type "Terminal" in spotlight or go to Applications, then utilities, then "Terminal"
- When Terminal open, copy-paste this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.78.2\""

Type the return key on your keyboard.

Safari will now say to Facebook and others sites that you're using a more recent version of Safari (Safari 7.0) And Facebook will be back to normal

 

[adammusic]

Hi guys, had the same issue… But I found a solution:

- Quit Safari.
- Type "Terminal" in spotlight or go to Application, then utilities, then "Terminal"
- When Terminal open, copy-paste this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.78.2\""

Type the return key on your keyboard.

Safari will now say to Facebook and others sites that you're using a more recent version of Safari (Safari 7.0) And Facebook will back to normal

this will make the user agent mode safari 7.0 permanent?

 

[Jerome Rehioui]

this will make the user agent mode safari 7.0 permanent?

Yes !

 

[adammusic]

Yes !

Worked. Thanks !! and Twitter works too. Awesome !!
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It just started for me today. Not crazy about it.

Do what Jerome just suggested. Worked for me !

 

[mimbrava]

I am totally unfamiliar with codes. If I do what Jerome suggests, what possible problems elsewhere could it cause? And if it causes any problems, how would I revert to the current set-up and just deal with mobile Facebook until I finally MUST buy a new computer so I can get a newer OS?

 

[adammusic]

I am totally unfamiliar with codes. If I do what Jerome suggests, what possible problems elsewhere could it cause? And if it causes any problems, how would I revert to the current set-up and just deal with mobile Facebook until I finally MUST buy a new computer so I can get a newer OS?

No problems for me so far. I dont know how to revert back yet. Maybe just clicking "Reset Safari" will work.

Facebook mobile on desktop is un-dealable for me haha

Its pretty easy to do if you follow his instructions step by step.

 

[BettBee]

Thanks SO much for posting this fix. It was driving me crazy, but this did the trick.

-- BB

Hi guys, had the same issue… But I found a solution:

- Quit Safari.
- Type "Terminal" in spotlight or go to Applications, then utilities, then "Terminal"
- When Terminal open, copy-paste this:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.78.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Safari/537.78.2\""

Type the return key on your keyboard.

Safari will now say to Facebook and others sites that you're using a more recent version of Safari (Safari 7.0) And Facebook will be back to normal

 

[adammusic]

Thanks SO much for posting this fix. It was driving me crazy, but this did the trick.

-- BB

Yeah it works but definitely breaks some other sites for me.