Mozilla forces desktop mode on tablets - all browsers affected - your way to fix

I’m not browsing much on me tablet, it’s for multimedia mainly, but sometimes I need to browse - bigger screen better for eyes.
Just recently noticed that all pages are opened in desktop mode which… Is not good for eyes.
It affects both my geckos, Iceraven and Fennec, but when tested on vanilla Firefox it was the same.
After short chat with AI I’ve acknowldged that Mozilla thinks people using tablets as computers.
Chad even gave me bug reports about that, but had no more time to go deeper.

So my short question after long beginning is: whats your way to fix that quickly and globally?
No solution given by AI was suitable neither worked.

Ps. Shame on Mozilla to make life harder not easier.

This actually goes by screen density than phone vs tablet afair.
So especially if you made your screen more dense via the Settings > Display > Display size it can happen.

by chance did you enabled it by default

  • settings _ site settings _ always request desktop site

No, I haven’t changed anything in about:config, but tried to disable it via variable:
“browser.request.desktop.site false”
but it didn’t work.

No, I haven’t changed anything in about:config, but tried to disable it via variable:
“browser.request.desktop.site false”
but it didn’t work.

  • then its a bug
  • Log in to Bugzilla
  • it was disabled in 137 or 138
    for some reasons
  • or you can complain on matrix
    @fenix:chat.mozilla.org

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