Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox compared to Chrome?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by st3fan on Saturday July 20, 2019 @08:42PM (#20489237)

If you change the User Agent to Chrome you can see that it works pretty well on Firefox actually.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by nullwasamistake on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:26PM (#20489387)

Yes. Google has been doing this for years, they serve a degraded version of YouTube as well.

Get an add-on to change your user-agent to latest chrome

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by beatgammit on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:36PM (#20489645)

But then it looks like everyone is using chrome in marketshare reports...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by giancarlostoro on Saturday July 20, 2019 @10:41PM (#20489664)

You only need to do so for Google sites. Maybe an enhancement on Firefox Containers that only do this for Google sites.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by CanisDirus on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:27AM (#20490466)

There's an addon that does exactly this: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-goo...

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Google search different on mobile Firefox ... by jsmith99 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @03:43PM (#20493249)

This addon works but it caused me to see a lot more captcha puzzles. My recaptcha v3 score changes from 0.1 to 0.9 depending on whether the extension is enabled.

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