Do We Have to Install Opera One
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by
@leocg How do I prevent the older version from updating to Opera One? The instructions you've given are great, Leo, but I'm not very knowledgeable about where to find things like update executables and the installation directory. Thanks again.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
If you haven't installed Opera before, download https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe to your downloads folder in whatever browser you're using.
After the download is finished, hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type
cmdand press enter to open a command prompt.Then type:
"%UserProfile%\downloads\Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe" --launchopera=0and press enter to launch the installer.
Click "options" in the installer, adjust the options as you like and install. When the install is finished, Opera won't open. Do not start Opera yourself yet.
Then, type:
explorer "%LocalAppData%\Programs\Opera\99.0.4788.88"and press enter to open the version folder in the install folder.
Select "opera_autoupdate.exe", hit F2 and rename it to "opera_autoupdate.off". Or, just delete it.
Then, type:
taskschdand press enter to open the Windows task scheduler. Select "Task Scheduler Library", scroll down and select "Opera scheduled autoupdate" and click "disable" in the right-hand pane. Repeat for "Opera scheduled Assistant autoupdate".
Then you will be good to go. Opera will not be able to update on you. It still might notify you that there are new updates via the Menu button at the top left of Opera though. If you don't like that, you can block connections to the update server if you want.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
If you already have Opera One installed for example, you can uninstall Opera first and clean the install folder up before installing the older version.
Download https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe to your downloads folder.
Uninstall Opera:
Goto the URL
opera://aboutand take note of the "install" path. By default, it should show "C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera", but it could be "C:\Program Files\Opera" if you installed for all users instead of just the current user. We'll assume you did the default, current-user install.Close Opera.
Then, hit Windows key + i to open Settings in Windows, goto "Apps -> Installed Apps", select "Opera Stable", click the 3 dots to the right of it and choose "uninstall" to uninstall Opera. Just don't check the box to delete your data when uninstalling.
When the uninstall is finished, hit Windows key + r to open the run dialog, type
cmdand press enter to open a command prompt:In the command prompt, type:
explorer "%LocalAppData%\Programs"and press enter to open up your local programs folder. Find the "Opera" folder, right-click it and choose "delete".
Install Opera:
Still in the command prompt, type:
"%UserProfile%\downloads\Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe" --launchopera=0When the installer launches, click "options", uncheck "import data from default browser", adjust anything else you like and install. After Opera is installed, it will not launch.
Still in the command prompt, type:
explorer "%LocalAppData%\Programs\Opera\99.0.4788.88"to open the latest version folder in the install folder. Once there, select "opera_autoupdate.exe", hit F2 to rename it and change it to "opera_autupdate.off".
Still in the command prompt, type:
taskschdand press enter to open the Windows task scheduler. Select "Task Scheduler Library", scroll down and select "Opera scheduled autoupdate" and click "disable" in the right-hand pane. Repeat for "Opera scheduled Assistant autoupdate".
Then you will be good to go. Opera will not be able to update on you. It still might notify you that there are new updates via the Menu button at the top left of Opera though. If you don't like that, you can block connections to the update server if you want.
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DarthContinent last edited by@burnout426 Thank you for these steps, worked nicely for me to revert back to the previous version. I hope Opera reconsiders and provides the more bubbly, rather irritating Opera One style optional, I like to keep it up to date for security and core functionality otherwise.
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by
@burnout426 Wow! I would never in a thousand years have been able to figure out what you just printed. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort. I hope it will be helpful to others as well.
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waterSOTR last edited by
I am sorry. other people have I guess been able to follow your instructions but I got lost right at the beginning when you said something about cleaning up something and then said to download this - https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe
HOW DO I go about downloading a url? I tried putting it in the address box but nothing happens. it is not a place to go.oh and now I cannot speak to any of the rest of your instructions because opera has this forum set up so I cannot both be here composing a reply and go up to your words above.
meanwhile I have wasted 9 hours already today trying to use the new version (I cannot get another tab to appear and I cannot close a tab I am seeing without going to Task Manager to shut down the browser...
and I cannot find any way to download an older version.
and I haven't been this frustrated in the past 70 years!oh and I also don't know why I bother with replying or asking for help in a forum, I have never ever been able to get a response to any comment or question I have ever sent any forum anywhere on the internet. I don't know how to speak the current language. I still speak read and write in English. none of the Instructions I see anywhere make sense to me.
oh well... I have just lost touch with 2 Depression and 1 Suicide group where I have been working with some seriously suffering people and have no idea how to get back there...
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@watersotr said in Do We Have to Install Opera One:
HOW DO I go about downloading a url?
You just click the link in whatever browser you're using and it'll ask you if you want to download it.
So, just click this:
https://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe
Or this:
https://get.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe
Or this:
https://get.geo.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/99.0.4788.88/win/Opera_99.0.4788.88_Setup_x64.exe
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@watersotr said in Do We Have to Install Opera One:
oh and now I cannot speak to any of the rest of your instructions because opera has this forum set up so I cannot both be here composing a reply and go up to your words above.
You probably expanded the compose section to the top of the page. There's a white down arrow with a black background that you can click to return it back to normal. Then, you should an up-down arrow with a black background that you can use to adjust home much height the compose area takes up.
Besides that, you can also right-click the tab and choose "duplicate tab" so you can switch to the full page without the compose area and back.
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DarthContinent last edited by
@watersotr Another option might be to use a different browser, whether Edge or Chrome or Firefox or some other, until you are able to get the situation with Opera straightened out.
I've done tech support for a couple decades out of the five I've been around so to hopefully clarify some of the helpful info related to @burnout426's reply, the steps described might be easier by opening a Command Prompt in Windows, and then from this page copying the commands and pasting them into the command prompt window, and then when ready hitting Enter to execute them.
For some context, the items in between percent symbols such as %LocalAppData%, %UserProfile%, etc., are sort of generic commands which when typed from your system will open those system folders specific to your Windows installation. These kinds of generic things are also known as environment variables which help software developers among others provide relatively generic means of referencing system-specific things.
That means, for example, %LocalAppData% when pasted into your Command Prompt and hitting Enter will open a Windows Explorer window showing the contents of your C:\Users\<your Windows username>\AppData\Local. The same would occur if you were to paste %LocalAppData% after clicking your Start button (or on older Windows versions into Start => Run).
When running commands there with things after a command to run an EXE file, like --launchopera=0, that serves to specify additional parameters that do other stuff available for typically very specific uses that program offers.
I don't want to derail you from burnout426's explanation in guiding you so please consider my info here as side stuff to hopefully help clear the mud. If there are any specific Windows questions feel free to ask here or separately, I'm familiar with Windows all the way back to 3.1, and MS-DOS as well, so I have a pretty holistic history with its nuances and quirks at the command prompt level.
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waterSOTR last edited by
After using Opera for 3 or 4 years as the most important of the browsers that I use I have had to uninstall it and quit using it because this new updated version cannot work at all. I never can see more than one tab at a time and have no way to move from that tab to any other, no way to move around at all except to use my Task Manager to shut down and restart.
Too bad, Opera used to be great. Now in attempts to give more it has become far too complicated and specialized. You guys have lost a lot of users...
and all the supposed explanations about how to go back to the former Opera, all of them were super complicated and quite impossible to follow.
in fact, I am not even certain theere written in English.
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DarthContinent last edited by
@watersotr Perhaps the Opera team should be congratulated for achieving what I suspect is a milestone, if a dubious one, in software development. I think, perhaps, they allowed either a single "rock star" developer, or that person and a gaggle of devotees, to push for what they thought were slick, shiny design and usability changes that turned out to be not so slick and not as usable as they'd hoped.
Whether young or inexperienced or overconfident or a combination, it's entirely possible for people to hyperfocus on some singular goal in development and ultimately neglect the rest, in other words not seeing the forest for the trees, as they say. I think with Opera One they did just that, and however unclear the circumstances may be to mere users choices were made that transcended subjectivity and have proven objectively poor.
Speaking as a longtime IT guy with a background including web and database development, and one having worked with and shaken my head sadly in the aftermath of such people, well-intentioned at best and frightfully egotistical at worst, I can only hope Opera will step back, course correct, and work more closely with their user base to devise a solution that not only deploys the bleeding edge some of their aspirants crave, but also cater to their devoted longtime user base that's stuck with them until recently.
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by
@darthcontinent said in Do We Have to Install Opera One: I can only hope Opera will step back, course correct, and work more closely with their user base to devise a solution that not only deploys the bleeding edge some of their aspirants crave, but also cater to their devoted longtime user base that's stuck with them until recently.
Indeed. I tried to follow the directions for going back but sadly my many years on this earth and my declining ability to follow (and understand) directions, I gave up in the end and simply uninstalled Opera altogether. On my Surface I've reverted to Edge. On my MacBook I've reverted to Safari. I fear that my many years with Opera have finally come to an end. I noted your words "frightfully egotistical at worst" and thought that perhaps that might explain this new direction. It's simply not for me. I'll watch from the sidelines.
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Jacquline last edited by
Yes, it is possible to download an older version of Opera with the former GUI. You can find it on the Opera website's downloads page. Once you have downloaded the installer, you can run it to install the older version of Opera. However, please note that Opera will automatically update itself to the latest version unless you disable automatic updates. To disable automatic updates, you can open Opera and go to Opera > Settings > Advanced > Update. Uncheck the box next to Automatically check for updates and click OK.
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canadagoose4everreturns last edited by canadagoose4everreturns
@jacquline Thanks for this information, but which link on the downloads page? Opera is making it very difficult for the user to know which version is which. Also: if you do check the box to prevent automatic updates, does that mean you will no longer receive security updates as well (which would put you at risk)?
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@canadagoose4everreturns There is no option to block automatic updates, what people do is to use some workarounds to avoid them.
And, yes, if you block updates then you will no longer get security updates unless you do them manually.
