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by ahmetkun 4271 days ago
same thing happened with Opera 10. you were notified that your browser is 'too old'
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Yup.

I'm using Opera 12.16. The User Agent starts with Opera 9.80 (the last version before 10 was 9.6x). Apparently, too many sites would use a regex to parse the first digit after "Opera" and check if it was higher than 6 or 7. Opera was thus forced to identify itself inaccurately.