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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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                                • 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!

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                                  • 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.

                                    I can not click, look here

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      I can not click
                                      Hmmm, try to "join" the discussion group first. (http://i.imgur.com/rDDcTIV.jpg)

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                                      • Deleted User
                                        Deleted User last edited by

                                        I can not click
                                        Hmmm, try to "join" the discussion group first. (http://i.imgur.com/rDDcTIV.jpg)

                                        Thanks, it worked now 🙂

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                                        • LOKIHOUND
                                          LOKIHOUND 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.

                                          Herrpietrus, I tried but it did not seem to work. If it worked for you tell me how and what you entered and where in the options. I tried all sort of variations and nothing changed! I gave up and thought to change the code. I also thought why is there not an option to change the default, and did it myself.

                                          The "User-Agent Switcher" for Chrome also has a right-click on the icon method for switching user agents - so if Facebook is squirrelly you can just switch them. So it's like the For-Opera-Extension "User-Agent Switcher" with the addition of automation.

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                                          • vinczej
                                            vinczej last edited by

                                            I had to change the Default User-Agent from Opera on Windows to Chrome on Windows, because UA as Opera had more problems on other pages. It works perfectly, but so I seem to be Chrome, not Opera. 😞

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