Making Opera identify as another browser...

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Is there any way to get Opera to identify itself to another website as a different browser? There are several website I access that complain that they don't support the Opera browser and a few of them won't let me proceed unless I use an approved browser.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

@tdbarnard In opera://flags there is an option to enable Chromium UA.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Another option is to specify the user-agent string you want on the command line.

Example:

"C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36"

You can do that in a command prompt or you can modify the command for Opera's shortcut.

Another option is to install an extension that does it. https://addons.opera.com/en/search/?query=user-agent for example. The plus side to using an extension is that a lot of them allow you to specify a modified user agent for specific sites (as opposed to all sites).

[rif]

rif last edited by

Easy to follow instructions here...

https://forums.opera.com/topic/30081/how-to-change-your-browser-id-within-opera

[toomakesense]

toomakesense last edited by toomakesense

Yes you can make opera identity itself as another browser, follow this step.

• Open Opera browser and click on Ctrl + Shift and I key to go to Developer Tools.

• in the Menu option click on the 3 vertical dots

• select More tools > Network Conditions

• navigate to network condition and then disable the option to Select automatically

• now Click on the Custom list and select your desired user agent.

Second Option is to use this User Agent Switcher Addon https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher/

Kings.

[bbildman]

bbildman last edited by

It was easier in previous versions of Opera where there was this option in the right clock menu, except they eliminated it, now you have to add an extension or jump through hoops to do this. In Opera 12, you could do this that worked JUST for that particular site, and went back to normal for other websites. THAT was much nicer.

[toomakesense]

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[brz7fvuw3o]

brz7fvuw3o @toomakesense last edited by

@toomakesense It is better to use https://add0n.com/useragent-switcher.html (top right corner) this is still supported and has recently been updated.

Fantastic extension and easy to use. And also available for Firefox and Waterfox.

[dany1980]

dany1980 @brz7fvuw3o last edited by

@brz7fvuw3o
Problem with extension is that it changes the ua when page is already loaded, but doesnt work on first host connection and on xss iframes call..

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @dany1980 last edited by

@dany1980 Replying to (more than) one year old topics is something you should avoid doing on forums as if your life depends on it.

[dany1980]

dany1980 @leocg last edited by

@leocg You are right xD

Sorry for the apocalyptic way i wrote my message
Apart, it was already solved question with the first answer

I see I can't edit/delete my message, if can do this for me I'd appreciate