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Unless I can set Chrome to pretend to be a mobile browser perhaps?
I have about 20kbps (that's kiloBITS!)

It's doing my noggin in! I try to access the mobile versions of sites but certain ones autodetect and throw me back to the full desktop version.


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 12:44 pm
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Opera compresses things which should help a little.

Lynx if you're using 2 cups and a bit of string...


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 12:45 pm
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Opera turbo.?

[url] http://www.opera.com/turbo [/url]


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 12:47 pm
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you can turn off all images in chrome, all plug ins and java etc. should help a bit.


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 12:50 pm
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You might get away with changing your user agent string to something mobile. That's probably how the auto-detect is working.


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 12:55 pm
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I got it to emulate a Galaxy tab...


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 1:00 pm
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Living in 1999?


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 1:07 pm
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No, 30 miles North of Aberdeen. In 1999 I was enjoying must faster speeds on dialup.


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 1:19 pm
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[i]30 miles North of Aberdeen [/i]

1994 then 😉


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 1:22 pm
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[quote=Cougar ]Thus,
> http://www.howtogeek.com/113439/how-to-change-your-browsers-user-agent-without-installing-any-extensions/
> http://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-change-user-agent-string
Or use a plug-in.

Well done - I was just coming back to this thread, having remembered how I did it in Chrome (had looked in settings, but didn't remember initially that I needed to go into dev tools). Though it's changed from what it says in that first article.


 
Posted : 20/10/2014 1:35 pm