Useragent question

[operabop]

operabop last edited by

Is the only way to modify the useragent is to do it on the fly right when it gets sent to a website, using the webrequest api?

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

There are extensions. A quick search gives this:

https://addons.opera.com/en/search/?query=agent

[operabop]

operabop last edited by

There are extensions. A quick search gives this:
https://addons.opera.com/en/search/?query=agent

Yes I'm quite aware that opera has extensions which can modify the useragent.

But what I want to know if theres any way to set the useragent manually for example opera:flags. Or if the only way is to modify it via an extension - is the only access to the useragent through the webrequest api?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

I want to know if theres any way to set the useragent manually

Nope.

Or if the only way is to modify it via an extension

Afaik, yes.

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

Hi @operabop, you can change the UA by adding the --user-agent switch at the end of the shortcut to the launcher.exe, for example:

"path\to\the\launcher.exe" --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.93 Safari/537.36"

Alternatively, if you want to set the UA for temporary use (it only persists, while you have the Dev Tools window open), copy your custom UA string, and press Ctrl+Shift+I (opens the Dev Tools), press Ctrl+Shift+M (toggles Device Mode), and on the right of "UA" click on "No override", paste the UA string (Ctrl+V, or right-click on the field, and select "Paste" from the context menu)