Desktop Mac OS X/Safari: FT defaulting to mobile site
Mar 31, 2015, 3:58 pm
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Apr 1, 2015, 5:02 am
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Some users are reporting an issue where they are automatically being given the new FT mobile site, even if they are browsing from a desktop/laptop/etc. computer. See this thread for more info, in particular posts #26 and beyond: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...tc-2015-a.html
Apr 1, 2015, 3:36 pm
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If you are taken to the mobile screen, at the bottom of the page is an option to click on for the full site. This happens when I visit FT with my iPad, for example.
Apr 3, 2015, 11:47 am
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I can do that, but it is frustrating to have to click the full site button each time I click on a link in an FT email on my iPhone. Wish they'd just default to the regular site 100% of the time.
Apr 4, 2015, 7:50 pm
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Some users are reporting an issue where they are automatically being given the new FT mobile site, even if they are browsing from a desktop/laptop/etc. computer. See this thread for more info, in particular posts #26 and beyond: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...tc-2015-a.html
What is being done to eliminate this behavior? It only recently began to do this, and it must be a coding error. I've never seen it in any other forum.
Greg
Apr 6, 2015, 3:01 pm
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Tech is aware of this and has offered possible solutions, and also the fact that if you are coming from a mobile hotspot, VPN or proxy IP, you may not be able to get to the full site.
Try flushing your cookies/cache. Short of that, there probably is no way to get to the full site until the next version of the mobile skin is produced. I do not have a time frame on that at this time.
Apr 6, 2015, 3:08 pm
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See my several answers on the previous page of this thread.
Tech is aware of this and has offered possible solutions, and also the fact that if you are coming from a mobile hotspot, VPN or proxy IP, you may not be able to get to the full site.
Try flushing your cookies/cache. Short of that, there probably is no way to get to the full site until the next version of the mobile skin is produced. I do not have a time frame on that at this time.
Tech is aware of this and has offered possible solutions, and also the fact that if you are coming from a mobile hotspot, VPN or proxy IP, you may not be able to get to the full site.
Try flushing your cookies/cache. Short of that, there probably is no way to get to the full site until the next version of the mobile skin is produced. I do not have a time frame on that at this time.
Surprising that the mobile skin broke this and it wasn't picked up by QA prior to release.
Greg
Apr 7, 2015, 6:08 pm
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I seem to get this at "random" but I've noticed that if I go onto the FT site with my iPad or cell phone (which is an android) and then go on my computer with an hour or two I'm getting pushed over to the mobile site. Even if I was using the regular site on my tablet or phone.
Not using a proxy, hot spot, or at the moment a VPN.
Not using a proxy, hot spot, or at the moment a VPN.
Apr 7, 2015, 7:34 pm
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So far, I'm getting the full site on my ipad using safari. I have the app installed but don't like to use it.
Apr 20, 2015, 11:41 am
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I'm accessing via two different generation iPads, using Safari and Chrome, these days; I've not experienced this.
On my Android based smart phone it occurs most often when I use an e-mailed link to open FT and I have to select the "full site" option.
On my Android based smart phone it occurs most often when I use an e-mailed link to open FT and I have to select the "full site" option.
Apr 28, 2015, 10:10 am
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May 3, 2015, 1:29 pm
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Miles & Points page keeps going to mobile version
Using a Mac desktop and Safari Version 8.0.5 (10600.5.17), I'm finding that I'm being landed in the mobile version of the page. I then have to use the Full Site link to get to the correct version.