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How to make Google services Opera-friendly

Published January 2nd, 2007 9:29 AM EST By Daniel Goldman

Here’s a neat little hack to make some of the offending Google services work better in the Opera browser.

Joao Eiras, an Opera user, wrote a small Opera User JavaScript file (Download patch — How to install) that patches some of the incompatibilities with Google services, such as Google Docs, Google Spreadsheet, Google Calendar, and Picasa Web.

Opera’s User JavaScript acts in a similar way as GreaseMonkey, the Firefox extension, only it’s built into the Opera browser. These scripts allow you, the visitor of a site, to directly manipulate the content (HTML, JavaScript, etc) of the page.

There’s a collection of other Opera User JavaScript files on this site (UserJS.org); it seems, however, that the site has been dormant for a bit.

(via Google OS and WebProNews)

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  1. 1 Håvar Skaugen Jan 2nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Great!

    I’ve been waiting for this. I’m tired of booting up IE or Firefox for my Google Docs needs.

  2. 2 Wajo357 Jan 2nd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Great news… too bad Google Notebook still doesn’t work.

  3. 3 adas Jan 2nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Linux Linux

    Please digg this information…

  4. 4 Daniel Aleksandersen Jan 2nd, 2007 at 5:54 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Linux Linux

    I could not log-in to my Google Account after applying this. But when I disabled it, loggedin and check off remeber password, and enabled it again it worked just fine.

  5. 5 treego Jan 3rd, 2007 at 12:10 am
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Good deal. :)

  6. 6 Darken Jan 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanx for this. :)

  7. 7 heather Mar 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanks! I just got it to work google calendars! Opera users are so clever.

  8. 8 Bill Ingerson May 1st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Windows Windows Server 2003

    Whoops! Just been reading about the Google fix and saw some script between teh last message on the page and the comment box. I tried to post on it and it crashed opera 9.1 (I’ve refused 9.2 as it breaks 3 features I use a lot - Opera I love you since v4 point something but give me a break - stop the gadgets and fixing things that work and concentrate on being a good browser!)

    Do we need a Javascript fix for Operawatch?

    Bilou
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    March 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
    Posted by heather using Opera 9.10 on Windows XP

    Thanks! I just got it to work google calendars! Opera users are so clever.

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