<![CDATA[Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent)]]>So today I noticed that Google Maps 3D maps stopped working.
.. I know that virtualization station on my QNAP also does not work.

IMHO Opera should really ID itself as Chrome since it uses the chrome engine (also I know that both of the mentioned sites work when I use an extension to change my browsers user agent).

I really think it sux when websites do browser checks rather than feature checks ... but that is another matter, and regardless having a feature to change the user agent would overcome these bad programming checks.

Kris

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/25098/please-bring-back-the-feature-to-emulate-other-browsers-user-agentRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 19:34:24 GMTWed, 14 Feb 2018 03:33:29 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent) on Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24:43 GMT]]>I just tried Google Maps and found that I am able to use 3D without faking my user-agent with Opera. Is that unique to Mac Opera?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/140168https://forums.opera.com/post/140168Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent) on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:17:47 GMT]]>The problem of such solutions is that they don't fix the real problem, which is pages doing browser sniffing, and also may cause issues.

Browsers should start using some generic user agent string.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/139950https://forums.opera.com/post/139950Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:17:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent) on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:34:45 GMT]]>A simple "mask as chrome" option that you could do on a per-site basis would be something nice to have built in.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/139946https://forums.opera.com/post/139946Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:34:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent) on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:04:55 GMT]]>@concretable, built-in would be more interesting.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/139932https://forums.opera.com/post/139932Thu, 15 Feb 2018 08:04:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Please bring back the feature to "emulate" other browsers (user agent) on Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:19:38 GMT]]>There are at least 2 extensions that can fake the user-agent. Both are called User-agent Switcher.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/139873https://forums.opera.com/post/139873Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:19:38 GMT