# How do i stop mobile Facebook from displaying in Opera?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-mobile-facebook-from-displaying-in-opera/617342 "2012-03-31T01:25:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-mobile-facebook-from-displaying-in-opera/617342/1 "2012-03-31T01:25:32Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I am enjoying my new Thrive tablet and downloaded the Opera browser for it tonight. I love Opera, but I am having an issue I can’t seem to solve. when I go to Facebook it displays the mobile version by default. I really hate the mobile versions of sites and would prefer the desktop version. when I use Opera on my iPhone, there is almost always a link on mobile sites to go to the desktop version, this is true of Facebook except I cannot find that option anywhere when it displays in the tablet. what am I missing?

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-mobile-facebook-from-displaying-in-opera/617342/2 "2012-03-31T01:34:20Z")

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Can’t help for Opera though I found [this workaround](http://blog.wapreview.com/3093/) which I can’t vouch for.

However if you download Dolphin Browser HD there’s a plugin called Dolphin Desktop Toggle that allows the mobile browser to emulate “Desktop, iPhone, iPad” or a custom setting. It works very well. The only thing that crashes it is Google Images for some reason. I recommend this browser over Opera - it has some really nice features.

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**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-stop-mobile-facebook-from-displaying-in-opera/617342/3 "2012-03-31T02:22:47Z")

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> [@jjimm](#):
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> Can’t help for Opera though I found [this workaround](http://blog.wapreview.com/3093/) which I can’t vouch for.
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> However if you download Dolphin Browser HD there’s a plugin called Dolphin Desktop Toggle that allows the mobile browser to emulate “Desktop, iPhone, iPad” or a custom setting. It works very well. The only thing that crashes it is Google Images for some reason. I recommend this browser over Opera - it has some really nice features.

Thanks for the help. The link to the workaround fixed the problem. Although I am happy with Opera, I will download and try Dolphin. It might be the next best thing.😉