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    • LOKIHOUND
      LOKIHOUND last edited by

      Can'f figure out how to use the user-agent-switcher mentioned by hal-man. What exactly do you enter and where. No information at all in the Extension's website about how to use it! If I am using it correctly it does not work!

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        Changing the user agent to make a mainstream website work properly, oh dear!
        Seems the compatibility problems we always suffered with the Presto versions of Opera aren't over yet.
        They'll be putting browser.js (or an equivalent) back next!
        (I know this isn't actually a compatibility problem, of course Blink Opera is compatible, as was Presto a lot of the time, it's just sites not recognising Opera and serving code which makes the site malfunction.)
        😞

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        • rodrigowbs
          rodrigowbs last edited by

          Hi, install this extension to temporarily fix the bug
          User-Agent Switcher
          https://addons.opera.com/es-419/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher/?display=en#
          Once installed select: >>> OPERA ON WINDOWS
          ENJOY!!! 🙂

          OHHH GOD THANKS MAN...

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          • Deleted User
            Deleted User last edited by

            Hi, install this extension to temporarily fix the bug
            User-Agent Switcher
            https://addons.opera.com/es-419/extensions/details/user-agent-switcher/?display=en#
            Once installed select: >>> OPERA ON WINDOWS
            ENJOY!!! 🙂

            you can choose chrome on windows too

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            • herrpietrus
              herrpietrus last edited by

              User Agent Switcher for Chrome works well. I keep it disabled and only have added a rule to change user agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; MSIE 11.0; Trident/7.0 - Opera 20 Pretending IE because of Google)" So on other websites my ua is unchanged 🙂

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                They'll be putting browser.js (or an equivalent) back next!
                It's already present since 15.0.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  Well I didn't know that! Interesting.
                  So they still have to put "fixes" in to enable some sites to work properly, even using the Blink engine?
                  Do all Chrome/Blink based browsers have to do that?
                  🙂

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    So they still have to put "fixes" in to enable some sites to work properly, even using the Blink engine?
                    Yes, and you can see how ironically most of the patches are for dealing with Google's browser sniffing despite Opera having switched to using Chromium. Google's discrimination against Opera is endless.

                    Do all Chrome/Blink based browsers have to do that?
                    I never studied how they deal with that, but I've seen a couple of browsers using a perfect copy of Chrome or Safari's UA-String so they don't identify themselves as themselves to any sites.

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                    • whitelotus01
                      whitelotus01 last edited by

                      Time to maybe use DuckDuckGo or Bing or Yahoo lol

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                      • herrpietrus
                        herrpietrus last edited by

                        Perhaps it's time to forget about usage statistics and enable using fake user agent by default... or at least build UA switching into Opera again. For better PR it could be named "compatibility mode" and it should of course have possibility to automatically pretend other browsers like the add-on which we are using currently. And it's clear that Opera should pretend Internet Explorer in order to not support Chrome popularity.

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                        • christoph142
                          christoph142 last edited by

                          They'll be putting browser.js (or an equivalent) back next!
                          browser.js is part of Blink-based Opera already (right from Opera 15 on).
                          It's just not as prominent because it currently holds about 7 entries whereas Presto's browser.js has more than a hundred.

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                          • LOKIHOUND
                            LOKIHOUND last edited by

                            I figured out how to make the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome (AKA Chrome UA Spoofer) work - All the time. Change the default custom agent!

                            1. Go to the Extensions page - Enter Developer mode
                            2. Go to the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome and open "background page" - which opens the Developer Tools window
                            3. Look for spoofer.js and open the Javascript editing window for it
                            4. Search for: UserAgent("Default","","","",!0,"Chrome"))
                            5. Replace with: UserAgent("Default","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120427 Firefox/15.0a1","Mozilla, Inc.","F15",!0,"Firefox")) - or another agent if you like - I think a few others work too
                            6. Save the file somewhere - right clicking gets you the save as option. The save seems not to work - won't over-right for me.
                            7. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USERNAME HERE\Application Data\Opera Software\Opera Next\Extensions\djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg\1.0.36_0 or where your extension file are
                            8. Make a backup copy of spoofer.js
                            9. Copy the edited copy of spoofer.js from #6 here - over-right it.
                            10. Start Opera

                            note: If you have a Google search open, refresh it. It should work now!

                            note: To go back to original default, delete the spoofer.js file and replace it with the original you backed up

                            I can see this having problems in the future as things change, or possible consequences on other web sites, but it fixes the old-style search results issue.

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                            • herrpietrus
                              herrpietrus last edited by

                              But why you don't want to use "Permanent Spoof List" and add only Google to it? 🙂 It seems to work well.

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                              • Deleted User
                                Deleted User last edited by

                                We should start spamming Google forums with this issue.

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                                • vinczej
                                  vinczej last edited by

                                  I use this User-Agent Switcher for Opera with the Option of "Opera on Windows", and works well.

                                  I changed the "JsonValues.min.js" in the appropriate Extension folder as below:

                                  "var JSON_DefaultUserAgent={Id:"Default",Name:"Default",UserAgent:"Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.62"},JSON_UserAgentsList=[{Id:"Android",Name:"Android"..."

                                  (Originally the Bold section was empty.)

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                                  • vinczej
                                    vinczej last edited by

                                    It's an other benefit, that in this case the extension autmatically switches itself as ON.

                                    Thanks, loki-dog for the good idea!

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      We should start spamming Google forums with this issue.
                                      Good idea, it looks like some people actually reported in the correct place:
                                      https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/websearch/opera$20browser|sort:relevance|spell:true

                                      We can go there and mark the topics with "me too" so they know a significant number of users are suffering with the issues they introduced. Please enter the topics and click "me too":

                                      https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/ZScGwFBodl8/discussion
                                      https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/mLUzy3tnRXY/discussion
                                      https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/SKzebvcFQLs/discussion

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        We should start spamming Google forums with this issue.
                                        Good idea, it looks like some people actually reported in the correct place:
                                        https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/websearch/opera$20browser|sort:relevance|spell:true
                                        We can go there and mark the topics with "me too" so they know a significant number of users are suffering with the issues they introduced. Please enter the topics and click "me too":
                                        https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/ZScGwFBodl8/discussion
                                        https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/mLUzy3tnRXY/discussion
                                        https://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/SKzebvcFQLs/discussion
                                        Could you show me where to click please? I could not find it

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          For anyone already using Tampermonkey, create a new script with the metadata below

                                          copy the browser identification from Opera > About Opera

                                          paste into metadata, remove OPR/ and everything after OPR/

                                          save and test google

                                          // ==UserScript==
                                          // @name       Google Fix
                                          // @namespace  
                                          // @version    0.1
                                          // @description  enter something useful
                                          // @include    *.google.*
                                          // @user-agent paste browser identification here
                                          // ==/UserScript==
                                          
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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Could you show me where to click please? I could not find it
                                            Yes, login and click in this button.

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