Unable to re-install Opera on my MacBook Air after many years of using
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peterlockett last edited by
Couldn't update opera on my mac so uninstalled it. I am now unable to reinstall it which is extremely frustrating. I have used Opera for many years and do not want to change now. I have downloaded the installer and it repeatedly says that it cannot download and try again with exactly the same result. Please help.
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khedges1 last edited by
@peterlockett What OS version do you have? I am trying to install Opera on a 2011 iMac that can't be upgraded past 10.13.6 and the installer says it needs 10.15 although the website says Opera only needs 10.13.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
See https://www.reddit.com/r/OperaGX/comments/17zpzw8/opera_gx_updated_itself_to_a_version_that_wont/. You can download older versions that do support 10.13 if you want.
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khedges1 last edited by
@burnout426 How will that accomplish my goal of running a current browser with all the security patches, then? The only reason I'm looking for an alternative to Chrome is that it's out of date and not fully secure.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@khedges1 said in Unable to re-install Opera on my MacBook Air after many years of using:
How will that accomplish my goal of running a current browser with all the security patches, then?
It wouldn't.
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peterlockett last edited by
@khedges1 My Mac is only 3 years old so I'm up to date with Sonoma 14.1.1. I just could not download it until I saw someone mention to try the off line download package? This didn't make much sense to me but somehow or other I downloaded an Opera package which finally allowed me to actually install it. More by brute force and ignorance but it worked. Try it.
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khedges1 last edited by
@peterlockett I'm not sure what you mean by the "off line download package." I downloaded OperaInstaller.app and when I tried to run it, it said I needed MacOS 10.15 to run this software.
This is a 2011 iMac with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 processor.
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peterlockett last edited by
@khedges1 yes it is an old Mac, Still the same problem I had. Of course I have no idea if Opera have decided to not let it’s service be used by an old machine or that your Mac just doesn’t have the necessary requirements for todays Opera. You should be able to just Google that question. But if you try typing in offline download for Opera just see what ya get. It just somehow worked for me. No need to understand it.
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khedges1 last edited by
@peterlockett Okay, I followed your instructions and they went to the same page I went to originally. It says it will run on 10.13 but it doesn't and I've gotten two responses saying Opera just forgot to update that piece of info.
I am trying to tell you that a current build of Opera isn't going to run on a Intel Core i5. It can't run anything newer than High Sierra. It doesn't have the right hardware. I already have an obsolete version of Chrome that "works" but it isn't secure. Don't need an obsolete version of a Chromium-based browser.
