Google Groups no longer working with Opera Mini / Mobile Symbian or Android

[bogbasic]

bogbasic last edited by

Folks, exactly as per title, I get "Browser not supported" on Google Groups :-s

It doesn't work with either Opera Mini 7.1 or Opera Mobile 12.... and now getting the same result on someone's Android tablet running Opera Mini *weep*.

I guess I am not the first to report this so sorry for any duplication. Its quite handy to look at google-groups on the phone, so I, for one, would appreciate a work-around somehow, apart from getting a new phone ;-0

Cheers, bog.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

yeah, right.
:rolleyes:

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

well, it ain't!

[bogbasic]

bogbasic last edited by

Cheers mate, nice one, at least its not just me!

[yeswap]

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Groups is broken for me too. Last week Google's Blogger Dashboard stopped working in Mini as well. Google seems to have written off Opera Mini as no longer worth the expense of designing for or testing against. It's a discouraging trend, with more and more mainstream sites including Linkedin, Quartz, Google Groups and Blogger are completely broken in Opera Mini now. Others like Forbes, Salon and CNet have severe rendering issues that make them difficult to use.

I think most of blame lies with Web publishers and the Web design community who no longer seem to consider the Opera Mini user base worth reaching, I also sense that Opera is no longer putting as much effort into patching Mini to work with broken sites as they used to.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Originally posted by bogbasic:

I get "Browser not supported" on Google Groups :-s

It looks like basic browser sniffing.
You just need to mask Opera Mobile as another browser inputting the UA-String you want.

Let's make Opera Mobile 12 pretend it's Opera 18 running on Android (I copied the UA-String from my device, you can tweak the Android version and device name, or grab an iPhone Safari UA-String in the web if you want):

1. Type opera:config in the address field to access the advanced config page.
2. User preferences -> Custom user agent -> input:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.3; HTC EVO 3D X515m Build/IML74K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.57 Mobile Safari/537.36 OPR/18.0.1290.67495

Save, exit Opera and open it again. Google Groups should work.

Opera Mini: just forget it.

[bogbasic]

bogbasic last edited by

Cheers mate, many thanks indeed. I can get Opera Mobile to install on my symbian phone and the opera:config thing in the address field brings up a 'Preferences editor'. Awesome. I can find 'User Agent' and click on it and it gives a field for Spoof UserAgent ID which is set to "1" by default. I can't actually change the value to anything like the string which you suggested.

Opera Mini: just forget it.

*weep* Opera Mini is lovely - my other Android phone is too old to run Opera Mobile, so I'm only able to run Opera Mobile on the symbian one...

I'll keep googling for clues..... indeed have done and it looks like a known problem with Symbian versions of Opera - you can't change the user agent in the same way as you can with Android, unless you get some custom-hacked versions. Maybe I'll just live with a daily digest by e-mail!!

[bogbasic]

bogbasic last edited by

With another browser that also had the same problem, I can get round it by turning off compression by the server i.e. the web page goes straight to the phone without being compressed by the server, or something? That was the advice from their customer service person who responded to a similar post I made on their forum and it works so it might/must be something that can only be sorted centrally for Opera Mini, pssssst, if anyone is listening ;-0

[navendukumar]

navendukumar last edited by

Dear rafaell

I would be thankful to u if u pl solve my problem the book mark sycronisation is not working since last week either on opera mini for android or
Symbian whenever we try to do book mark sycronisation we get message saying pl check ur network setting

sir pl help us with solution as no technical person is listening waiting for ur help

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Originally posted by navendukumar:

Dear rafaell

I would be thankful to u if u pl solve my problem the book mark sycronisation is not working since last week either on opera mini for android or
Symbian whenever we try to do book mark sycronisation we get message saying pl check ur network setting

sir pl help us with solution as no technical person is listening waiting for ur help

I'll reply to you in your original topic.

[bogbasic]

bogbasic last edited by

Seems sorted now - awesome.

[ishq40]

ishq40 last edited by

I should always remember!!! Opera Next is for iPhones & Opera Max is for Android.