Is it possible to disable the default JSON viewer?

[nashuim]

nashuim last edited by nashuim

The most recent version of Opera (103.0.4928.16) seems to include a JSON viewer installed that's used when viewing json pages.
Example for https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts

Is there any way to disable this viewer? It's overriding an extension I use to view JSON that has more functionality than the default viewer.

I see no option in the settings, opera://flags or the extension list when running Opera with --show-component-extension-options

If it is not possible to disable it is there any way for an extension to take precedence over the default viewer?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @nashuim last edited by

@nashuim As far as I know, Opera doesn't include a JSON reader.

[nashuim]

nashuim last edited by

@leocg Yes it does, open https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts in Opera and you'll see a page that looks like the screenshot I posted.

Regardless, I have seen others report this problem and it seems to be a Chromium issue. The latest version of Chromium fixes this and allows extensions to override the viewer

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @nashuim last edited by

@nashuim The page looks the same on all browsers here. Just Firefox seems to be a little different, since it includes a header/menu on the top.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I see some info about this at https://community.brave.com/t/how-to-disable-new-pretty-print/506408.

"C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" --disable-blink-features=PrettyPrintJSONDocument

That seems like it does the trick. It gets rid of the pretty print checkbox at least. Not sure if it'll allow your extension to work again or not though.

[nashuim]

nashuim @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for