How to view XML files, i.e. disable "Personal News"?

[ezimir]

ezimir last edited by

The only topic I found regarding this is 4 years old:

• https://forums.opera.com/topic/18551/can-t-disable-personal-news-view-for-xml

Is there still no way of disabling "Personal News"? I'm not interested in removing it from toolbars and panels, I've already done that. I'd like to view the original XML, not have it parsed by "Personal News".

I'd be fine with url.to.xml?pn=false, is there something like that?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

I can view https://www.w3schools.com/xml/note.xml in Opera fine. It doesn't trigger anything with personal news. I can view https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/feed/ fine too. It doesn't trigger personal news either and it's even served as "application/rss+xml".

[ezimir]

ezimir @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 How about these

• https://pawelgrzybek.com/feed.xml
• https://snarky.ca/rss/
• https://blog.datawrapper.de/rss2.xml

?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @ezimir last edited by

@ezimir Yes. Those trigger personal news. I see if I can find a way around it.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

If you goto the URL opera://settings/personalNews and enable "Show available news feeds on address bar", when you goto a page that links to the feeds with the HTMLLinkElement, you can click on the icon, right-click on the RSS feed link and choose "save linked contact as". That will cause Opera to download it as a txt file that you can then open in Opera or a text editor.

I tried view-source:https://pawelgrzybek.com/feed.xml URL, but that only shows the HTML page that embeds the feed and not its source. Same with developer tools.

I tried looking for a Chrome or Opera extension that matches a content-type header value of "application/atom+xml" or "application/rss+xml" to modify it to text/plain or something. But, I couldn't find one that modified the header conditionally based on the header's value.

If you start Opera with the --show-component-extension-options command-line switch, you'll see the News feed handler extension on the opera://extensions page. But, you can't disable it and you can't turn it off for incognito mode either (option just resets on your when you refresh the page) to try to load it in a private window to view its source. The extensions has an id of "enmlgamfkfdemjmlfjeeipglcfpomikn", but I'm not sure how to block that extension by id. I don't think there's a Chromium command-line option for that. It can be done with a group policy maybe, but, Opera doesn't support that like Chrome and Vivaldi do.

Opera doesn't have a flag at opera://flags to disable Personal News and I'm not sure if Opera still supports a command-line options to disable it.

In Opera's Developer tools, the Personal News extension takes over via it's mimeHandler and then the news page fetches the feed. I don't see the resource on the Network tab to inspect the feed's XML.

So, so far, not much luck.

[ezimir]

ezimir @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Hoooly... Thank you for a proper response and an actual attempt to solve this. Too bad there's no way to disable this. Thanks!

[joeykoen96]

joeykoen96 last edited by

How to remove rss parsing from opera? This auto feature really sucks, should have an option to toggle it.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

https://forums.opera.com/topic/40011/how-to-view-xml-files-i-e-disable-personal-news is a related thread.

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