| Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | andreasbovens | 8/3/12 6:24 AM | Opera 12.50 (which is currently available as an Opera Next build from http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/) has dropped the security token and language indicator from its UA string, just like Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari. However, because of this, |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | + Gaurav Power Poster | 8/3/12 8:59 AM | Hello, Google+ isn't tested on Opera: some features may not work correctly. Reference-:Supported browsers For G+ |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | h143570 | 8/3/12 10:00 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | h143570 | 8/3/12 10:01 AM | We know that already. However this block is caused by the UA String change, which put Opera's UA String in line with other browsers UA String, including Fx, IE nad probably Chrome https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572656#c0 |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | JovankaB | 8/4/12 2:36 AM | And why do you rely on UA strings anyway? It's very bad practice, I would expect Google developers to know that. |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | Marcin Grotomirski | 8/5/12 9:56 AM | So if you don't support Opera why bother creating special code served only for Opera? Just send Opera the same code as served e.g. for chrome. It's the only support we are asking. |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | MarkG | 8/6/12 9:23 AM | As a real user, please fix this. I'm keen to test the latest and greatest Opera, I don't want Chrome, and I use G+ all the time. Thanks. PS. Shouldn't Google be using grown up HTML? I mean expecting fixed tokens? Really? If you detect Opera an |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | Jordan Miner | 8/6/12 7:08 PM | I currently use Firefox and think that Google less evil than most other companies, but I'm sick of Google relying on user agent strings so much. (Try changing your user agent to one you just invented and see what various Google sites do.) It really g |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | jamiejag | 8/8/12 5:33 AM | I set the UA string to be "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1207.1 Safari/537.1" (from http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Chrome/), and Google Plus started working again |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | paddy2k | 8/14/12 1:32 AM | Looks like this issue has been resolved. |
| Re: Google+ blocks Opera 12.50 | andreasbovens | 8/15/12 2:36 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |