When you switch to Mobile Layout Bolt uses the User Agent in the jad file instead of its own which makes requests coming from Bolt look like they came from the native phone browser. Normally Bolt is downloaded with a phone browser so its user agent is stored in the jad. This works because when you download Bolt, the User Agent of the browser you use for downloading gets stored in the Bolt jad file. When you need to have Bolt impersonate Firefox, go into Bolt’s Preference menu and select “Mobile Layout” Download any version of Bolt and side-load it on your phone using your something like Nokia’s PC Suite or Bluetooth. As soon as you submit the form you should get an email containing download links for all the various signed and unsigned versions of Bolt.

To download Bolt with a PC you have to visit /betadownload.html and fill out a web form that asks for your name and email address.

If you want to impersonate a desktop browser like Firefox, for example, download Bolt to your PC using that browser. While their isn’t any way to change Opera Mini’s user agent, it quite easy to change Bolt’s. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows U Windows NT 5.1 en-US BOLT/2.001) AppleWebKit/530+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17 You can see your browser’s User Agent by visiting ua. Well designed sites offer a F ull Site link on their mobile pages to allow users to override the browser detection if desired but many sites do not. Web developers often use the User Agent to direct browsers to what the developer believes is the most appropriate version of the site’s content. This happens because every browser sends a User Agent header which identifies it. The complaint is always the same, some web site is redirecting Opera Mini users to a limited mobile version of the site when the user wants the full site. The subject comes up all the time on the Opera Mini MyOpera forum. A lot of people seem to want to change their mobile browser’s User Agent header.

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