"View Mobile Site"

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 6:58 pm

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  Has everyone’s gray admin bar at the top of the blog been replaced with “View Mobile Site”? I don’t want to view the mobile site. I want my admin options back. They appear when I’m actually on an admin page, but when viewing my blog or any post or page in my blog, I get a “View Mobile Site” bar — and I am not on a mobile device.

  I’d kvetched a bit earlier about the search bar dropping down into the blog because of the number of items on the bar, but this is worse (the letters are large & the bar is distracting). I suppose maybe clearing my cache & logging back in is in order, but this has never happened before, and it’s odd.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 7:07 pm

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  It won’t go away. It is of no use to me, and all the useful functions of the gray admin bar are gone unless I’m actually in an admin page.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 7:22 pm

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  I’m on windows XP using FF5.01 and I don’t have this problem. If clearing your browser cache and cookies doesn’t work you will need Staff help.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 8:51 pm

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  Yeah, it won’t go away. Oddly, it only happens when I’m on my own blog, not when I’m on someone else’s wordpress.com site or when I’m on an admin page or the forums, etc.

  I even checked to make sure that I was still on “default user agent” and hadn’t somehow changed my user agent for some mobile device.

  Guess I’ll have to contact staff. I’ll try completely rebooting my computer first — I’ve left that to the last thing to try.

  If anyone has any ideas in the meantime, I’m running Firefox 5.0 on Win XP.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 9:20 pm

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  I contacted staff.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 25, 2011 at 9:32 pm

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  Okay, feeling particularly stupid now:

  I had cleared only the wordpress.com and gravatar.com cookies. Suddenly I thought: I have my own domain now! (For only a week, so perhaps some part of my stupidity may be excused?)

  I went into my cookies.
  Searched for “mmadfan.”
  Found one lonesome mmadfan.com cookie.
  It had the word “mobile” in the description.
  I blushed & deleted it.
  I refreshed my blog. I now have my gray admin bar back — at least I’m not troubling you any longer! :)

  I think the cookie was set when I clicked on one of the “clicks” in my stats to see what it meant, ’cause I hadn’t seen it before. *blush* (Yeah, curiosity is one of my flaws/virtues — that and a lousy memory!)

  Why couldn’t I have thought of this before having submitted a question to staff? Needless to say, I posted & took the request back!