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Opera to Stop Spoofing User Agent as IE

Posted by timothy on from the bold-new-world dept.

Anonymous reader writes "The Opera browser will stop spoofing its User Agent (UA) as Internet Explorer. Currently Opera, by default, spoofs its UA to identify itself as Internet Explorer. This is seen, by some, as a move that will bring up Opera's usage stats a bit higher, and will hopefully make webmasters, who develop IE centric sites, more aware of Opera."

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  1. What they do not yet do is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Correcting the stupid bug that prevents one from typing international characters in Opera on Linux/Mandriva/KDE (like ñ, é, ü, etc.).

    All (I mean *ALL*) other apps deal correctly with accents -- and Opera up to 7, too -- but not Opera 8.

    My wife and daughter prefer Opera to Mozilla. I use Konqueror, but was ok with Opera until that bug appeared _months_ ago.

    Already filed a bug, no answer whatsoever, forums (fori?) just acknowledge the problem; the suggested solution is using the statically compiled version (which is lame, to say the least).

    If I'm ignorant of some already known solution, please, please, somebody do enlighten me!

    Also they have another problem under KDE: Opera does not print. People even post scripts to deal with this (which is lame, too -- not the scripts, but Opera is lame).

    But there's an easy workaround here: print with Opera to a file (postscript), open Konq as filemanager and print with Kghostscript. Too easy, and I'd like to post this solution on MyOpera's forums. Guess what? They want me to register!

    What are they afraid of? That I post a solution in public and charge them afterwards? Boy, the things we have to do to remain anonymous these days... how long can I remain anonymous without being a criminal just for doing that?