Opera Mini and Myspace... help! Its all in dutch!

EtherealRemnant · #1 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 03:05 AM

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

My entire Myspace profile is now Dutch because I didn't push the right option when browsing with Opera Mini... does anyone know how to fix this? I'm completely unable to read anything and its driving me BALLISTIC!!!

EDIT: Nevermind... I fixed it... god that was annoying... has anyone else had this problem? Its a big deal IMO!!

gsvnet · #2 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 03:52 AM

I haven't personally had that problem, but it makes sense because Opera's proxy servers are situated in Europe. This hasn't happened recently, but occasionally when I'd visit Google I'd get it in another language (I guess it was Dutch)...

EtherealRemnant · #3 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 01:05 PM

Well when I logged into Myspace, it now has an option to choose to remain in English or go to Norwegian (not Dutch, I was not thinking last night)... I actually found a whole thread on it just now.

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=157451

Mutiny32 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-26-2008, 02:26 PM

Opera is based in Norway, thus most of their server equipment, along with the majority of their proxy servers. A lot of sites serve pages based on the user agent of the browser fetching a given page. Considering they speak Norwegian in Norway, the servers present a page in Norwegian. The page is p***** on to the user's browser in the language it was received in.

The reason why Opera uses proxy servers is for many reasons, the main one is for the benefits of caching and image recr
ompression to serve pages faster by saving bandwidth. Anther reason is to correctly render pages for the browser thus saving memory, CPU usage, and subsequently battery life of the phone.

I've seen pages show up in Spanish/Portugese as well, which is to be expexted o save on latency and increase reliability of their servers.

You can turn it off, but I'd reccommend against it, as it usually slows browsing because the phone is handling raw pages by itself and offsets any speed increases seen by a closer and shorter path to the web server.

Kyle

#5 (**permalink**) 08-27-2008, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Mutiny32

You can turn it off, but I'd reccommend against it, as it usually slows browsing because the phone is handling raw pages by itself and offsets any speed increases seen by a closer and shorter path to the web server.

Kyle

How do you turn it off? I have never seen the option under settings, nor via opera:config