Viewing desktop version facebook on Android. Using Dolphin

Dolphin is a great browser alternative for Android which support multitouch and gesture. Currently its my Android browser which I mainly used if I want to view a website in desktop version, and it support Facebook on desktop version too.

Yeah we have dedicated facebook apps for Android, which is quite adequate and fast. However there are times when you want to view it using Desktop view, maybe when something is missing in the app view or there are lightweight facebook apps that you want to use. However if you are hoping to play games you are out of luck, it is either real slow on loading, lag till its unplayable, or it just force close. I'm using Galaxy Tab P1000 so maybe you have better luck if you use a more powerful Tegra based tablet or better.

Here is how Desktop version of facebook on Android looks like, the discolouration is caused by the screenshot taking apps btw on device the color is fine:

You can download Dolphin on Android market or from this link:

https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.mgeek.TunnyBrowser&hl=en


To view facebook or any site on its Desktop version, go to More->Settings->Dolphin Settings->User Agent->Set it to Desktop

There are other view settings as well such as iPad, iPhone and a custom view. I barely used iPad and iPhone before so I'm not sure how does it look like from those devices.