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WTH! Why is IE8 taking me to mobile sites on my PC?

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FireChicken

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Yahoo sometimes. E-trade all the time. Dosent happen with firefox. How does a site determine whether to display the mobile site or the full internet version? (No i dont want to use firefox 100% of the time. )
 
Most likely it will be based on the user agent string your browser sends to the web server when it requests the page. Some of the sites you are viewing will probably only support the popular browsers, and conditionally support IE up until version 7 otherwise display the mobile version of the page. Luckily you can set compatibility mode on IE8 so sends the IE7 user agent string and also uses the IE7 rendering engine:

IE8
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1)

IE8 compatibility mode
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 3.0.30618; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1)

 
So I checked IE8 and compatibility viewing is on. I even specified the site to use compatibility viewing. Still going to mobile sites. Any help would be great.
 
Have you tried running IE8 in "safe mode" under Accessories / System Tools / Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)?
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
Have you tried running IE8 in "safe mode" under Accessories / System Tools / Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)?
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that didnt work either
so wierd. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
 
Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Reset...

Does this happen with any other browser?
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did that.
other users are reporting this happens on certian version of FF.
Didnt happen till I upgraded to IE8.
 
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