# Persisting desktop/mobile view in mobile Chrome browsers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/persisting-desktop-mobile-view-in-mobile-chrome-browsers/41326>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persisting-desktop-mobile-view-in-mobile-chrome-browsers/41326 "2016-03-20T07:01:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/persisting-desktop-mobile-view-in-mobile-chrome-browsers/41326/3 "2016-03-22T06:35:01Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Yes, but that cookie would be per domain so how would it help?

I guess it would help by keeping the desktop UI setting every time I went to [mydiscoursesite.example.org](http://mydiscoursesite.example.org) in my Android Chrome browser. Isn’t that desirable?

And, yes, unique user agent indeed:

> Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Pixel C Build/MXC14G) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.91 Safari/537.36

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