Now a days there are many tools and softwares are available to build mobile compatible website. But testing mobile site for every mobile phone is not an easy task. User Agent Switcher and Modify Headers firefox add-ons will help you to test mobile phone compatible blog/website for any mobile phones.
To test mobile blog/site you need:
- Firefox Browser with User Agent Switcher and Modify Headers firefox add-ons.
- Minimum one Mobile device user agent (user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.)
- UA Profile HTTP Header (Making the Web server believe you are browsing on a mobile device)
Install User Agent Switcher and Modify Headers firefox add-ons. Restart firefox browser and make sure that both add-ons can able to find menu under Tools > Default user agent and Tools > Modify headers to ensure installed properly or not.

Once its done, Start configuring User Agent Switcher firefox add-on first. Let’s consider we are going to test the site compatibility with nokia 6230 mobile device.
User agent for nokia 6230 is Nokia6230i/2.0 (03.40) Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 (Find more mobile user agents ) Add the nokia 6230 user agent with User Agent Switcher firefox add-on. Below screenshots will help you to illustrate the steps.
1. Open up Firefox browser menu Tools > Default user agent > Edit user agent and in taken away to another window.

2. Click on New and Add New User agent.

Another window pops up as shown below. Enter new user agent title and replace the default mozilla user agent with nokia 6230 user agent and Keep the other settings as shown below and click ok. Make sure that you must change the user agent profile which you created before to test mobile website.
Now Let us configure x-wap-profile header in Modify Headers firefox add-on for nokia 6230 mobile. Value of the x-wap-profile header generated by a Nokia 6230i cell phone is.
http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/N6230ir200.xml
More UAProf URL List for different mobile phones are available here. To add x-wap-profile header for 6230i navigate to Tools > Modify Headers and add wap profile as shown below.


Restart the browser and get ready to test your mobile phone compatible website or blog via firefox.


May 21, 2010
Ryan
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mobile websites are already growing these days. pretty soon we would have tons of them.
Great site man Thank you
Wow thnx for this so much useful info about the use of firefox ad-ons for mobile sites…will be really helpful for me in the future
there are growing number of mobile websites these days, there would be more in the future.
there is a growing trend in mobile websites this year alone.