Crippleware (okay, "Mobile") mode kicks in by itself
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Crippleware (okay, "Mobile") mode kicks in by itself
Hmm, this MAY be related to the "Latest update" thread that CliffordK and JohnDThompson are contributing to, but perhaps not. This is something that appears to have just started happening the last couple days. I'm running Firefox on Windows 7. On a computer. With a keyboard. So I'll be on a screen -- any screen, a thread, a section, my control panel, whatever -- and literally with NO input, the display will change to what is apparently "mobile" mode. There are almost no English word cues on anything. I had to guess that a bunch of little horizontal dashed was a menu of some sort; this allowed me to "Use full site", which returned the display to one more sane to use with a computer.
This has happened twice now. In both cases, it was, again, with NO user input. I have the page open, step away (for several minutes in one case, several hours in the other), switch back to the page, and it has the crippled look.
Is there a way, per user, to permanently disable any possibility of using this "mode"? I'll never use the Internet with anything but a computer. This option is and will always be useless to me. It would be ideal if it simply didn't exist as long as I'm logged in; that way, no mysterious refresh or the like can allow it to creep in again.
This has happened twice now. In both cases, it was, again, with NO user input. I have the page open, step away (for several minutes in one case, several hours in the other), switch back to the page, and it has the crippled look.
Is there a way, per user, to permanently disable any possibility of using this "mode"? I'll never use the Internet with anything but a computer. This option is and will always be useless to me. It would be ideal if it simply didn't exist as long as I'm logged in; that way, no mysterious refresh or the like can allow it to creep in again.
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I would clear your cookies and cache for this site and see if it continues to happen. For future reference on other sites, "three horizontal lines" is almost the universal symbol for a menu.
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The "three horizontal lines" are called the "hamburger", for future reference.
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I'd go to your control panel and check disk usage, memory usage, swap usage, and CPU usage.
Let us know what you're seeing.
Let us know what you're seeing.