Firefox for Android User Agent WRONG

I am using Firefox on my Galaxy S4 which has a screen size of 1080 x 1920 and Firefox is reporting that it is a Tablet. I am running a custom DPI of 320. The issue is that T-Mobile thinks I am tethering when i am not. Please, I beg you, make an option to select the User Agent that the USER wants. This will allow me once again to use your web browser for Android. Thanks.

There is a small addon for changing your user agent.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/mobile/addon/phony/

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Hi Ryan:
Thanks for the developer tools feature request
This is a user support forum not a developer tools forum therefore I am locking this thread.
Please file your developer tools feature request on the developer tools uservoice at:
https://ffdevtools.uservoice.com/forums/246087-firefox-developer-tools-ideas
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