Opera Has Got a Portable installer

[Jordan]

Opera Has Got a Portable installer

 

Today, Opera developers announced a new nice feature. The ability to install Opera as a portable app was added to its installer. Portable apps have the benefit that they do not store settings in the Registry so the same set of settings can be used across different Windows PC or different Windows installations on the same PC. Once downloaded, you can simply run the portable app's EXE. The app does not need to be installed.

The revamped version of the Opera Installer now supports a portable installation mode. When you run the portable installer, it extracts a standalone version of Opera to a location specified by the user. By default, it detects removable drives connected to your PC and suggests to use one of them as the destination location. See the following screenshot:

Interested users can try the new installer by downloading it from the following location:

 

Download Opera Portable

 

As of this writing, this new installer is an experimental feature, so it has arrived only on the developer channel.

Once it is polished, it will be rolled out for stable and beta channel users.

 

You might be familiar with portable apps if you have used Winaero Tweaker.

You can simply unpack it once and it will run subsequently without installation. Winaero Tweaker's installer has a portable mode option.

 

 

 

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[anuraag]

It is already available since long time. also in 12.

[vitorio]

This is an option every major browser should have. 

Now I have another reason to like Opera browser.

[Kalju]

Opera 11.0 Beta 1 (Build 1111) Released: 23 Nov 2010 (5 years 9 months ago) /Digital signature 22.Nov 2010

This is the first installer where this option was available. Since then it has been all along available. It is now 5 years 9 months ago was already available.

Here is a screenshot and if anyone needs, then also the installer.

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/opera/win/1100b1/en/Opera_1100_en_b1_Setup.exe

 

[pc71520]

On 7/9/2016 at 1:48 PM, vitorio said:

This is an option every major browser should have. 

Very much agreed.

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/09/07/opera-portable-installer/

[steven36]

53 minutes ago, Kalju said:

Opera 11.0 Beta 1 (Build 1111) Released: 23 Nov 2010 (5 years 9 months ago) /Digital signature 22.Nov 2010

I dont think its ever been stealth  they made  Opera-Usb portable  before  it was built into the installer  even since 2008

http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/OperaUSB-Changelog-58658.html

The reason i dont think it's stealth is  John T. Haller makes paf  of it still. Most every browser offer a zipped version you can use on USB  but none them are stealth  that i know of browsers  are  some of portableapps  most downloaded apps   .

 

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/opera_portable

Since the Chinese consortium bought  it out  and Chorme Browsers are a dime  a dozen  Ill just stay with slimjet .

[Kalju]

15 minutes ago, steven36 said:

I dont think its ever been stealth  they made  Opera-Usb portable  before  it was built into the installer  even since 2008

Spoiler

http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/OperaUSB-Changelog-58658.html

The reason i dont think it's stealth is  John T. Haller makes paf  of it still

Since the Chinese consortium bought  it out  and Chorme Browsers are a dime  a dozen  Ill just stay with slimjet .

 

 

All this does not depend on what you think or want. I checked before I wrote.
These two are different things, if somebody made portable and Opera installer contains  this option.

And why is the Softpedia better than Opera official "Release Notes" and installers itself? They are till now available for everyone.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, Kalju said:

All this does not depend on what you think or want. I checked before I wrote.
These two are different things, if somebody made portable and Opera installer contains  this option.

And why is the Softpedia better than Opera official "Release Notes" and installers itself? They are till now available for everyone.

You  could say that about coming here and downloading software from one of you're  post  the devopler has it so why come to nsanedown and listen to you or anyone's 2 cents worth?. Last  i checked most apps  post Softpedia reviews and stuff and use it for a official mirror . Do you have permission from the developers  like Softpedia I think not!`

Even Opera USB does use them as a official mirror

 

Screen shot source

http://www.opera-usb.com/links.htm

I dont see changelog at Opera USB  any more its legacy  software not been updated since Version 12.17  so posted the changelog from one there official mirror . Since its built in to the installer there's no need   to make it anymore  The rest of the browsers post  zips  or 7z installers  that can be used  on USB  so how is this any better it being built in the installer besides the fact it saves them money  only having  to use 1 installer for everything  ?

 

Always there's been portable of Opera since  2008   as far as the adblocker built in  content blocking feature was built-in for more than a decade prior only to be removed for the Chromium version. Opera, rehash putting back features they removed when they changed to Chromium  

 

Interesting  comments about the sale of Opera here

 

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JohnTHaller 164 days ago | parent | favorite | on: Opera’s $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or c...   The way Qihoo 360 operates should give anyone pause: https://www.techinasia.com/360-safe-browser-malware Stolen recolored IE icon, sneaky installs, difficult/impossible uninstalls, fake "security" ratings, etc.

 

zhte415 164 days ago   Stated in another thread on Opera's sale, but to restate and reaffirm: anything that involves Qihoo|360 in a name should be instantly removed from your system. It is self-spreading malware. Source: Dealing with this malware on a daily basis. It replicates itself from USB stick to plugged in phone. 360/Qihoo is, in every sense of corporations or individuals seeking any semblance of control of their device, a heathen. Edit: Live in China. Work for privately held Chinese company. Enforced removal of this 360 entity from company.

AJ007 164 days ago   Opera's owners better be taking 100% cash.

 

 

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11368974

 

[Holmes]

For your information saying portable installer is a oxymoron.  If its a installer its not portable and if it portable its not a installer.

[steven36]

LOL .  all paf portables have  installers .and many softwares have installers witch have and option to install it normal  or portable .. When im on windows 80%  of my programs are portable only programs i install are ones that don't work right as portable  or ones i use often. 

 

[vitorio]

13 minutes ago, Holmes said:

For your information saying portable installer is a oxymoron.  If its a installer its not portable and if it portable its not a installer.

Just to prevent misorderstandings.

 

Oxymoron

.a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely 

[Holmes]

I know what oxymoron means and I wasnt incorrect thank you.  If its a installer its going to put shit in the registry and that makes it not portable if its portable it wont put shit in the registry and is portable.  If you were not calling me out saying Im wrong then forget what I said.

[steven36]

12 minutes ago, vitorio said:

Just to prevent misorderstandings.

 

Oxymoron

.a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely 

Oxymoron  is contradicting yourself  but many portables come with installers so that's not being a oxymoron   being portable don't mean it want  put stuff  in the registry that just means it will run on USB  being stealth  means it want put stuff in the registry and most stealth  portables  are paf  and they come with PAF (PortableAppsFormat) installers

 

[SnakeMasteR]

Good installers have crapload of additional features, what Opera offers here is a installer, portable is just an option in the installer and extraction a feature of it.

[Kalju]

I'm amazed that this little misinformation can suddenly make so much fuss.

[steven36]

Just like Universal  Extractor is a another option  to let you extract many programs  and use them as portable on USB   Some of them can be made  stealth without paf  or some other portable format some of them can not.

[Holmes]

No portable programs do not add shit to the registry the only shit that goes onto the hard drive is a temp file or like in process explorers case sixty four bit version of process explorer.  The point of a portable version of a program means nothing gets installed if you download a portable version of a program and run it it runs without putting anything into the registry.  If you say Im wrong you apparently dont understand how portable programs work.

[Kalju]

2 hours ago, Holmes said:

Spoiler

No portable programs do not add shit to the registry the only shit that goes onto the hard drive is a temp file or like in process explorers case sixty four bit version of process explorer.  The point of a portable version of a program means nothing gets installed if you download a portable version of a program and run it it runs without putting anything into the registry.  If you say Im wrong you apparently dont understand how portable programs work.

 

A little oil on the fire, that you would be more interesting.
Yes, in this I agree, You really don't understand, but seems You have not understand, what the thing is registry, how it works and how Windows programs working.
 

[Holmes]

Im do really understand portable programs and how they work if I download a program I prefer to download a portable one in that case if I decide to remove it later you delete one file and not have to worry about uninstalling it portable programs dont have a uninstaller they dont need one.  For your information yes portable installer is a oxymoron.  This is from wikipedia:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application

 

Quote

 

A portable application does not leave its files or settings on the host computer or modify the existing system and its configuration. The application does not write to the Windows registry or store its configuration files (such as an INI file) in the user's profile; instead, it stores its configuration files in the portable directory.

 

This was my thinking the whole time.