Browser Detection for Opera 13+

[amazon-clickstream]

Hello,

It has recently come to my attention that WURFL is unable to correctly Opera browser traffic for versions 13+ of Opera (12 and lower is detected fine). I know that they adopted a slightly different user agent format for 15+ versions, which is described here: https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-user-a ... and-beyond, but I don't know why 13 and 14 are being mis-identified as well.

Are there any plans to support correctly identifying Opera UAs of this format in the future?

[sriram]

Hi there!

Thank you for the information. I've passed this on to the device detection team and we will keep you updated.

Cheers!

[sriram]

Hi,

It has recently come to my attention that WURFL is unable to correctly Opera browser traffic for versions 13+ of Opera (12 and lower is detected fine)....but I don't know why 13 and 14 are being mis-identified as well

Our research indicates that Opera skipped those versions and went directly from 12(Presto based) to 15(Chromium based). You can see this for yourself here: Opera on Windows, Opera on Linux and Opera on Mac. We would appreciate it if you could send us some sample User-Agents for Opera versions 13 and 14 to wurfldb {at} scientiamobile {dot} com, so that we can look into this immediately.

I know that they adopted a slightly different user agent format for 15+ versions, which is described here: https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-user-a ... and-beyond...Are there any plans to support correctly identifying Opera UAs of this format in the future?

We are planning on releasing a new update to our WURFL API (v1.5.2) in September that should resolve Opera 15 and above UAs properly.

Thanks,

[amazon-clickstream]

I didn't realize that they jumped directly from 12 to 15, that makes a lot of sense. I only cited that 13 and 14 were being misidentified because there was a gap in our information following version 12, but with this new information, the update should be sufficient.

[sriram]

Perfect! Please let me know if you require any further information.

Thanks and cheers!