What is the correct way to detect Opera using jQuery?

Question

Amazon.com recently updated their javascript, and it\'s causing problems with some Opera browsers.

Their browser detection code looks like so, but it\'s faulty:

Answer 1

I don't know for sure ( i never really check for opera anyway) but if the built-in jQuery functionality doesn't detect opera, may be a bug with the jQuery which needs to be fixed. I would suspect if that's the case, it should get resolved fairly quickly.