User-Agent-Switching Extensions do not work in Opera?
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mattkruse last edited by
I created an WebExtension to force Facebook into the old layout - OldLayout.com
It's very simple, but it doesn't seem to work in Opera. So I tested other extensions that change the user-agent header in requests, and none of them seem to work either! I'm using https://manytools.org/http-html-text/http-request-headers/ to look at the actual request headers being sent, and the user-agent header is never being modified, by any extension.
My code is extremely simple, and uses chrome.webRequest.onBeforeSendHeaders.addListener() to intercept headers and change user-agent. Full source is here: https://github.com/matt-kruse/old-layout/tree/master/extension
I can't find any documentation that says webRequest is broken in Opera. But, I am also not a regular Opera user so I don't know if I'm missing a setting or something that is required for these to run? Any tips at all?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@mattkruse I have used a few of those user agent switches extensions and they seemed to have worked. At least the user agent looked different in some testing sites.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@mattkruse I've checked here with one extension and it didn't work. Maybe something has changed that broke those extensions.
Would be interesting to see if they work in other Chromium based browsers.
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bizzyb last edited by
Have you found a solutions to this yet, most of the things I use like streaming services will not work with the new facebook. Thanks
