Thanks for the discussion of this issue.  I came here from Bug #1506836,
learned something, and now I've just finished fixing the code on my own
site to handle "mobi" and "like android" tokens correctly :-)  I've also
submitted a feature request to LastPass.

To broaden the discussion slightly, could anyone comment on the
likelihood of any of the following things being implemented?  They would
all provide a (perhaps unfriendly) workaround in the situation where a
particular website refuses to play ball but a user has a desperate need
for it to work correctly:

* Provide a button or something in the browser to explicitly switch UA string 
(like Sogou does to handle Chinese websites that require IE6 brokenness)
* Support an "about:debug" page or similar that allows a custom UA string to be 
typed in
* Allow the user to edit the override list on their phone (even just a text 
file editable in the terminal would do)
* Support plugins in the browser that would allow third-party developers to fix 
the problem for you

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