Getting Konqueror to Work with Facebook

April 29th, 2010 by John Nelson Leave a reply »

Facebook redirects Konqueror to Facebook mobile; I assume it sees WebKit and thinks IPhone. Until facebook corrects the identification error, you can use Konqueror’s settings to fix the mistake.

Navigate to http://www.facebook.com/facebook?ref=pf.1

Go to Tools > Change Browser Identification > Safari > and click the highest non-IPhone version you see. (On my computer, this was 3.2.)

Konqueror Facebook Screenshot

Konqueror Facebook Screenshot

Enjoy lightweight browsing.

  1. The setting we are changing will be applied to a domain. Since you cant get to facebook.com otherwise, you visit this page so that the modification is applied correctly.
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2 comments

  1. Hugo says:

    Tnx for the info. Strange that facebook gets this wrong. With 400M active users on facebook, a 0.05% konqueror usage, that is 200 thousand people redirected incorrectly!

    On my Konqueror (4.2.2) there is no ‘Tools’ menu. In “settings->configure konqueror->browser identification” it is possible to make the same changes though.

  2. John Nelson says:

    Thanks, Hugo.

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