Opera Android understands that my smartphone is a Tablet

morretz

morretz

I used Opera for years, but over time and with the growth of the smartphone screen, I have been facing this problem since 2019 in Mi MIX 3 5G, when I open the browser it understands that I am on a tablet, the interface changes for tablet (so far ok, I can change it in the settings), the problem is websites that it displays on desktop instead of mobile pages, when checking the UserAgent on website, I saw that it really understands that the device is a tablet, contrary to what happens in other chromium based browsers.
Is there any solution for this? I thought about changing the UA, but Opera doesn't allow this in the settings.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @morretz

@morretz Default user agent is set to phone? The user agent correctly shows your device model?

morretz

morretz @leocg

@leocg Yes, it is set to mobile
My user agent in Brave and other chromium based browsers:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Mobile Safari/537.36

My user agent in Opera:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 12; 2109119DG) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/102.0.5005.134 Safari/537.36 OPR/70.3.3653.66287

As we see above, in the UA of other browsers it appears "Mobile Safari", in the UA of Opera only "Safari", I believe that this causes the sites to be displayed in Tablet or PC version.
I have two devices, Poco F3 and Xiaomi 11 lite 5G NE, this problem happens on both, whether Opera common, Opera GX or Opera Touch, the only exception is Opera Mini.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @morretz

@morretz Here, Opera's user agent has the mobile safari part but I am not quite sure that it makes any difference.

morretz

morretz @leocg

@leocg I believe that's why, a pity that there is no way to change the UA, I really like Opera mobile, but with a small problem, it's bad to use.

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