Nokia N800/N810: Modify the MicroB User Agent to View iPhone Websites

Contributed by shamanstears August 22, 2008  
Tagged: Internet

Lots of websites provide versions that are modified for the popular iPhone. If you like the looks of these modified sites, you can use them on your Nokia N800/N810 by modifying the User Agent of the MicroB web browser.

To change the MicroB user agent to act like Safari on the iPhone:

1. Copy the following into your address bar:
about:config?prefname=general.useragent.overrideprefvalue=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28iPhone%3B+U%3B+CPU+like+Mac+OS+X%3B+en%29+AppleWebKit%2F420.1+%28KHTML%2C+like+Gecko%29+Version%2F3.0+Mobile%2F3A109a+Safari%2F419.3

Bookmark the page for future reference.

2. Click the Set Preference button.

Now go look at pages modified for the iPhone.

To go back to the original MicroB settings:

For the N810:
1. Copy the following into your address bar:
about:config?prefname=general.useragent.override&prefvalue=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28X11%3B+U%3B+Linux+armv6l%3B+en-US%3B+rv%3A1.9a6pre%29+Gecko%2F20071128+Firefox%2F3.0a1+Tablet+browser+0.2.2+RX-34%2BRX-44_2008SE_2.2007.50-2

Bookmark the page for future reference.

2. Click the Set Preference button.

for the N800
1. Copy the following into your address bar:
about:config?prefname=general.useragent.override&prefvalue=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28X11%3B+U%3B+Linux+armv6l%3B+en-US%3B+rv%3A1.9a6pre%29+Gecko%2F20071128+Firefox%2F3.0a1+Tablet+browser+0.2.2+RX-34%2BRX-34_2008SE_2.2007.50-2O

Bookmark the page for future reference.

2. Click the Set Preference button.