Opera updated itself without my permission and now will not work with my OS

[matilf]

matilf last edited by

I did not upgrade Opera on purpose because it kept telling me it would not work with my OS. Last night, upon shutting down, apparently it updated ITSELF and now will not work. How do I go back to a previous version that does work? OS is mac 10.9.5; and why would it do that when it "knew" it would not work with this OS?

[dekeh]

dekeh last edited by

old versions here when they break your opera http://get.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/

[aerdfgafdsafads]

aerdfgafdsafads last edited by @dekeh

@dekeh I've downloaded several different ones and when I got to put it in the Application Folder, I get the circle with the line through it. I've tried nearly all the 2018 releases. Very unhappy about this. Will most likely switch completely to Brave browser.

[mgeffro]

mgeffro Opera last edited by

@aerdfgafdsafads @matilf There is problem with our autoupdate server which started to serve new version to unsupported systems on macOS. To work around this please run following command in console: "defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true". You can download last version for OSX 10.9 here: https://ftp.opera.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/49.0.2725.64/mac/
Sorry for this inconvenience.

[zappa18]

zappa18 last edited by @mgeffro

@mgeffro It doesnt' work!! Can't get to any of my bookmarks, that I use for my work and my new book. Need help urgently!!!

[zappa18]

zappa18 last edited by @zappa18

@zappa18 Solved!

[aerdfgafdsafads]

aerdfgafdsafads last edited by @mgeffro

@mgeffro said in Opera updated itself without my permission and now will not work with my OS:

To work around this please run following command in console: "defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true".

How? There's only a search section to input text.

[zappa18]

zappa18 last edited by

@aerdfgafdsafads You copy it and put it in your terminal box (find terminal: Click the Finder icon in your dock. 2. Click Go. 3. Click Utilities. 4. Double-click Terminal.) With that open, you go to the link mgeffro mentions, you download the setup and then it worked for me. (hope the names are right, my Mac speaks Dutch

[mgeffro]

mgeffro Opera last edited by

Fix for above problem with autoupdate was deployed on production yesterday around 5:50 GMT.

[toraware]

toraware last edited by

Me too! Apparently the last updated Opera version - which should well have known my mac's OS version, 10.9, now automatically destroyed itself on my mac because it no longer works. Must I kiss Opera goodbye although I remain steadfast in my desire TO REMAIN WITH MAC 10.9 !??!

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator last edited by

I gather you didn't read the message above yours. They already fixed the autoupdate issue. Of course you'll have to uninstall the bad update and go back to 49 manually, but it should stay at that version now.

[dekeh]

dekeh last edited by

@mgeffro said in Opera updated itself without my permission and now will not work with my OS:

defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true

Mine reset again to being broken. But I ran the command so hopefully this fixed their issue. The reset happened yesterday so the fix wasn't in for my machine.

[dekeh]

dekeh last edited by @aerdfgafdsafads

@aerdfgafdsafads Get version 49 if you haven't already and run the command
defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true