How to Spoof or Change Opera User Agent String
User-agent string is a characteristic identification string submitted to and used by web server to identify and determine client’s application type, operating system, software vendor, or software revision. Sometimes, there is a need to change or spoof user agent string that been supplied by the web browser to the remote server in order to access restricted content pages or request specific web pages for different target medium.
Here’s how to fake and spoof user-agent in Opera web browser. Opera can make itself to identify as either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. The flexibility is provided as a workaround for users to access websites which do not recognize or support Opera, and worse still, block access or prevent loading or web pages on Opera browser.
Method 1: Through Browser Menu
- In Opera browser, click on Tools -> Quick Preferences -> Edit Site Preferences.
- Go to Network tab.
- Under the Browser Identification section, select appropriate option. 5 options are avaible:
1: Identify as Opera
2: Identify as Firefox
3: Identify as Internet Explorer
4: Mask as Firefox
5: Mask as Internet Explorer
Tip: In option 4 and 5 (mark as), Opera is not mentioned at all in user-agent string, which ideal for users who want to completely hide Opera identify.
- Click OK when done.
Method 2: Through opera:config
- Type opera:config into the Opera location address bar and hit Enter to open Preferences Editor.
- Type Spoof UserAgent ID into the quick find box next to “Show All”.
- The “Spoof UserAgent ID” setting will be shown. Change the value to a numerical value between 1 to 5 (both inclusive), which represents the following:
1: Identify as Opera
2: Identify as Firefox
3: Identify as Internet Explorer
4: Mask as Firefox
5: Mask as Internet Explorer
Tip: In option 4 and 5 (mark as), Opera is not mentioned at all in user-agent string, which ideal for users who want to completely hide Opera identify.
- Click on Save when done.
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internet explorer will allow
its users to spoof on a global basis
opera will ONLY allow its users to spoof
on a site by site basis but NOT globaly?
is opera realy trying to conpeat at all?
a web browser company in Norway (opera) is
preventing web anonymity and helping who?
the chinese government, to track dissidents
is this statement all that far off?
give up we have no privacy in opera
after you try to spoof opera's
user agent string, test it on http://www.danasoft.com/
opera ALWAYS reviels your using opera
and your operating system version
so no NO! it does not " Mask as " anything
using user.js is NOT well explained
and i bet it fails as well
just give up and drink the !#%^* flavoraid!
"how to identify as Opera mini" .. dingbat.
Any idea to get this working in Opera 10.1? I guess the user setting in "Method 1" always overwrites the "Spoof User Agent ID" from "Method 2" This is bad news for a global UA setting, "Method 1" is website based only
how to identify as Opera mini