For some strange reason Google doesn’t like Opera, maybe its because they want everybody to turn towards Firefox. But due to its speed and other functionalities its gaining popularity among websurfers these days. I’ve seen lots of people who gave up IE or Firefox and switched over to Opera 9.
Like all other Google Products, Google Reader also doesn’t work in Opera, so an unknown coder has written a script which will make it work for you. All you have to do is:
- Download Reader.js
- Right click in the page your Google Reader page, click edit site preferences
- Go to scripting and see the box for choosing a file there? type in this…
C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\reader.js- and make sure you place that reader.js file in the folder of opera as indicated above.
- And you are done! refresh the page.
I ain’t a Opera Fan, but I use Opera sometimes to check my theme’s compatibility issues.
Credits: Syn
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wrote, on October 9th, 2006
hey! thankx a lot for featuring me
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\ folder is not there in my opera… wat do i do now??? create 1?? or paste it 2 existin cache folder ‘C:\Program Files\Opera\opcache’ n under scriptin type, ‘C:\Program Files\Opera\opcache\\reader.js’ … wil it work???
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
Syn: No worries
Avi: Which version of Opera are you using ?
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
last released 1… i guess 9.02… dont use opera much… jus 2 check if page is openin in tht… i love firefox…
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
Avi: I not a full time Opera jerk, but still I will do some research and try to help you
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
tilak, thnx anyways 4 da useful piece of info… n ya, if u do come 2 know bout any security fixes or anythin good 4 firefox, letme know…
nyways, thnx…
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
Sure Avi, I’ll share my knowledge here on this blog
wrote, on October 9th, 2006
when i meant “C:\Program Files\Opera\profile\cache4\”
it means any folder inside opera
lol you can have that reader.js file anywhere on your comp, jus make sure you specify the location right!
example: D:/yourstuff/yourfolder/reader.js
make sure you actually put that file in that location on the comp! thats all! and of course specify that address in opera.
wrote, on October 10th, 2006
Don’t use the cache folder for permanent storage, that’s not smart… Simply create a new folder, for example under your profile directory, and download your user.js files to that folder. See ‘Help > About Opera’ is you want to learn where Opera currently stores data.
The userscript checks for which website it is intended by itself, so you don’t really need to use Site Specific Preferences, you can also enable ‘User JavaScript’ for all pages by selecting a directory for userscripts in ‘Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options…’
wrote, on October 15th, 2006
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wrote, on October 17th, 2006
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wrote, on October 18th, 2006
Google reader now works with Opera without any additional UserJS scripts. Yummy!
wrote, on October 18th, 2006
Piotr: Thanks for the heads up, I think Google understood the pains of Opera users
wrote, on December 1st, 2006
I'm having a problem installing Opera 9.02 on FC5.
Every time I try to run it, it comes back with a “unable to find software information” error.
When I try to run it from the command line, I get 6 conflict errors.
I must add that I already have Opera 8.54 but I close it down before I try and run it.
wrote, on April 17th, 2007
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wrote, on April 4th, 2008
Seems that Google has a thing to Opera and it’s not good. Lately, the Google Calendar was also smashed in Opera…
It’s weired that Opera is the first one to pass Acid3 though