SillyDog701

[xtremeleafan]

All my opera search results goto the Google page for Great Britain.Is that default and how can it be changed to Canada Google ?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.23 [en]

[Edward]

The default Google search (in all versions of Opera that I have used) has been the main Google (US) site.

It is possible to change what you ask, however it involves editing one of the .INI files, and ensuring that when it's saved after the change is made, UTF-8 encoding is used, otherwise the file will be useless. I would not recommend editing the .INI files.

The easy way to do this however, is to run a search like you normally would, then in the Address Bar, simply substitute the www.google.co.uk with www.google.ca, leave the remainder of the address as it is shown, then hit ENTER. The search will then display results from Google Canada.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.50 [en]

[bhtooefr]

Check "30 Days to becoming an Opera 7 Lover", http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7

Somewhere in there is an article about editing the INI files using an old Opera 6-era tool that still works on the Opera 7 INIs.

UserAgent: NCSA_Mosaic/2.7b5 (X11;Linux 2.4.22-10mdk i586) libwww/2.12 modified

[Svedman]

xtremeleafan,

This is probably much easier than editing an INI file.

Go to Tools > Preferences > Languages and check if you have any preferred languages in the list.

When I have Norwegian as my preferred language, Google chooses Norwegian. If I have English as my preferred language, it chooses English.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]

[DJGM]

I notice that contributors to this thread are using the default Opera useragent
string (spoofed as MSIE6) Could I just inform those that aren't already aware
of this particular issue, that it can cause inaccurate browser stats on web
servers, as they'll see your copy of Opera as just another instance of IE.

For more info, please refer to this thread . . .

Thanks for your attention . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 - DJGM.co.uk (ax)

[Svedman]

It can hardly be called "spoofing", as the word Opera is still in the UA string. Please read my reply to the thread you're referring to for more information.

I've noticed that some contributors to this forum are using Mozilla when posting, which is "just as bad"

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]

[Edward]

Since the UserAgent with "MSIE 6.0" in it reflects IE 6, I believe it is that which web sites pick up for their statistics, which records it as IE, not Opera.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

[Svedman]

Only poorly written scripts will be unable to detect Opera. The so-called "spoofing" function in Opera was introduced at a very early stage because there were a lot of web sites that looked for MSIE or Netscape, and when it found neither, the rest of the script would fail. There's still quite a few of those scripts around.

The word Opera has always been appended to the UA string, so web designers who want to detect Opera, has always been able to do so. It's simply a matter of knowledge and will.

Since the UserAgent with "MSIE 6.0" in it reflects IE 6, I believe it is that which web sites pick up for their statistics, which records it as IE, not Opera.

Then you might as well say that since Mozilla/4.0 is in it, it reflects Netscape, which is what the statistics will pick up. This is, as you and I know, not the case, since MSIE, Mozilla, Netscape and Opera all include Mozilla/4.0 in their UA string.

Instead - and this is my point - since Opera is included in the UA string, there should be no problem to detect Opera.

I use StatCounter, and they're able to detect Opera fine, regardless of what it identifies itself as, because they look for Opera in the UA string.

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54 [en]

[bhtooefr]

DISCLAIMER: I do run without any spoofing, and I only turn it on for sites that refuse Opera.

I can see why people don't like that Opera spoofs by default, though.

Those poorly written scripts may be operated by people who look at it, see that there are a bunch of IE hits, and a few Mozilla hits, when there's a good bit of IE hits, a few Moz hits, and a few Opera hits.

UserAgent: Opera/7.53 (X11; Linux i586; U) [en]