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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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                                      • luciflash
                                        luciflash last edited by

                                        They have just updated Opera to version 21, but didn't fix this problem! 😞

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                                        • Deleted User
                                          Deleted User last edited by

                                          They have just updated Opera to version 21, but didn't fix this problem! 😞

                                          It is not an Opera problem.

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                                          • luciflash
                                            luciflash last edited by

                                            Well>> They have just updated Opera to version 21, but didn't fix this problem! 😞

                                            It is not an Opera problem.

                                            Well, in User-Agent Switcher, if you select Opera 10, it still works. So my guess is google doesn't recognize Opera as Opera. It identifies it as Internet Explorer 6, or 7, or 8...

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