google search result changed display.

[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.)

[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...

[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

[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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[whitelotus01]

whitelotus01 last edited by

Time to maybe use DuckDuckGo or Bing or Yahoo lol

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

We should start spamming Google forums with this issue.

[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.)

[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!

[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

[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

[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==

[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.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

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

Thanks, I will do it!