Setting up FireFox to Impersonate the iPhone

[Cleverboy]

Just figured this out, and thought I'd share.
http://forums.figma.com/showthread.php?p=43#post43

Apple is bound to come out with new web apps at some point, and if they have useful tricks in them, always nice to peek at the source.

Here's how to set-up Firefox to impersonate the iPhone.

1. Download the User-Agent Switcher Extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

2. After restarting, choose TOOLS > User Agent Switcher > Options > Options...

3. Now, go to the section "User Agents"

4. Click "Add..." and set the following fields:

• Description: iPhone (doesn't really matter)
• User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3
• App Name: Netscape
• App Version: 5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3
• Platform: iPhone
• Vendor: Apple Computer, Inc.
• Vendor Sub:

I also posted some comments about browsing the reader.mac.com website, too.

~ CB

 

[Killyp]

Surely you'd be better just viewing in Safari? That's what the iPhone has after all...