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I usually have my twitter feed open on safari on my macbook. Today, it somehow loaded the mobile twitter website instead of the desktop site. How can I change it back to the desktop site? I've tried completely closing out of safari and reopening it, as well as completely restarting the laptop. I do not want to use the mobile website.
MacBook Pro, iOS 9, safari
1. If you use iCloud to synchronize Safari with a mobile device, you may be opening a bookmark to the mobile version of the site. Another possibility is that you're getting a Handoff activity from the device.
Please remove everything from the URL except the domain name and try again. For instance, if the URL is something like this:
or
change it to this:
2. From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data...
and confirm. Test.
3. If the above steps don't solve the problem, load CheckMyIp.org and post the "USER AGENT information" shown.
1. If you use iCloud to synchronize Safari with a mobile device, you may be opening a bookmark to the mobile version of the site. Another possibility is that you're getting a Handoff activity from the device.
Please remove everything from the URL except the domain name and try again. For instance, if the URL is something like this:
or
change it to this:
2. From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Privacy ▹ Remove All Website Data...
and confirm. Test.
3. If the above steps don't solve the problem, load CheckMyIp.org and post the "USER AGENT information" shown.
That didn't work, unfortunately, and now i'm beyond frustrated because I really need twitter to work, as the search function is pretty vital to my job. I've resorted to using firefox for that so I currently have both browsers open since I prefer to use safari. Here is the USER AGENT information.
Your USER AGENT information is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/600.8.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.2.8 Safari/537.85.17
According to that, you're using Safari 6 on OS X 10.8. Assuming that's true, your version of Safari is too old to be reliable. The only way to update it is to upgrade the OS to El Capitan. If you don't want to do that, then you've found the best workaround.
My son has the same problem. I found this:
People who log in to http://twitter.com on Safari 6 or older will now be directed to http://mobile.twitter.com: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169327…
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It looks like Apple/Safari has made the decision to redirect anyone with an old version of Safari to the mobile version of Twitter.
Just to be clear: it's Twitter that's doing the redirect. This isn't anything Apple controls.
Twitter on Safari for Macbook?
