Diplo Says...

The Opera web browser is extremely flexible and powerful. However, some of Opera's more advanced features don't have any simple user interface to implement them. This is why I developed the following tiny Windows applications that provide a simple GUI interface to implement two useful features outlined below:


My Opera AdBlock provides a front-end to Opera's inbuilt URI filtering. For a long time Opera has had a little-known facility to block URI's that are defined in a file called filter.ini. This Windows application provides a convenient front end to this.



One of the other useful things Opera has had is the ability to change it's user agent string (the text string that browsers send to identify themselves to websites).

However, before Opera 8, you could not do this on a per-domain basis. Now, though, Opera utilises a new file called UA.ini which is a simple list telling Opera which browser to 'spoof' for any given domain. This is useful for sites that discriminate against Opera due to poor browser sniffing. Now you can get notoriously difficult sites such as msdn.microsoft.com to work properly with Opera.

However, manually adding enteries to your ua.ini file is a pain, which is were my Opera User Agent Editor comes in handy - simply right click a page and up pops the following tool to make adding enteries simple.



For more information and download links please visit the Opera Tools section of my website.