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Can you activate tablet mode manually?

I'm using a Surface Pro 3 tablet running Windows 10. According to the wiki tablet mode should automatically engage in chrome or firefox but it seems it does not because my browsers do not identify themselves as mobile in the user agent string. Short of changing the string (which I don't really know how to do properly and would prefer not to mess with), is there any way to make this happen?
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Gid
Roll20 Team
For Chrome: I found with my Surface Pro 4, I had to enable the flags in Chrome itself to get touch capability. Even if Windows swaps from laptop to tablet mode, Chrome isn't smart enough to know when this occurs dynamically. Go to chrome://flags and change the "Enable Touch Events" setting from "Automatic" to "Enable", this should trigger Chrome to accept touch input. I don't think this actually activates tablet mode, but it does give you all of Roll20's functionality if you have the Surface stylus. I've found that with fingers, you can do most things on the VTT, but abilities like panning, moving tokens, and sometimes horizontal scrolling doesn't work with fingertips. They will work with the stylus, though. For Firefox, fingertips were registering without any issues on my Surface Pro. I didn't have to change the touch flags for it.