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Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me

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On 2017-04-12, licensedtoquill@gmail.com <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, that was absolutely disastrous.
>
> I did what you said and it immediately screwed up my opengmail page,
> at first telling me that I am not using an iphone instead of
> displaying my email
>
> then when I tried to undo the damage and revert the user agent back to
> DEFAULT, it went into my gmail but with some catastrophic wholly
> text-based page where I cant figure out what is going on
>
> Any idea how I can undo the damage please?

You're very confused. There is no "damage" to undo.

The User Agent menu command only changes the user agent for the
*current* browser window/tab - no other browser windows/tabs are
affected. And as soon as you switch back to the default User Agent or
close that window/tab, the User Agent is back to normal. 

The typical use case, as I described, is:

1. You try to view a video on a web page.  2. The video claims it
requires Flash.  3. You set the User Agent to any iOS string.  4. The
page reloads and you can play the video. 

None of that has *anything* to do with GMail. I'm not sure what you are
referring to as an "opengmail page". It could be you mean the standard
http://gmail.com page, or I suppose it could be something else. I see a
stand-alone application called OpenGMail here, but I doubt this is what
you are talking about since it's not something you would access in a web
browser:

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengmail/>

I'll just assume you meant http://gmail.com. In that case, it sounds
like you purposefully went to the GMail web site in the same tab that
you had previously set to an iOS User Agent string. Indeed, if you do
that, the GMail web site assumes you are using an iOS device (since
that's what the iOS User Agent string told it) and displays a page that
asks you to instead use the native iOS GMail app:

<https://i.imgur.com/vx4t0LL.png>

All you have to do is close that window/tab and open GMail in another
one. 

BTW, there's really no need to use a web browser to access GMAil on a
Mac since the built-in Apple Mail application supports GMail just fine,
allowing you to access your GMail with the same app you use to access
all your other mail. ; )

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-08 08:37 -0700
  Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-08 16:21 +0000
    Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-08 20:32 -0700
      Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-09 03:38 +0000
        Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-08 20:56 -0700
          Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-09 04:02 +0000
            Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-09 05:43 -0700
              Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-09 15:26 +0000
      Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-04-09 15:59 +1200
    Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-09 14:39 +0000
      Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-09 15:27 +0000
        Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-09 18:28 +0000
          Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-09 19:36 +0000
            Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-10 05:21 -0700
              Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-10 13:33 +0000
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-10 10:22 -0700
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-10 18:16 +0000
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-11 06:55 -0700
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-11 10:26 -0400
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-11 14:41 +0000
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-11 10:52 -0700
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-11 20:01 +0000
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me licensedtoquill@gmail.com - 2017-04-12 11:36 -0700
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-13 01:35 +0000
                Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-12 08:22 +0000

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