Opera 123.0.5669.47 not running with macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur

[speedtolosa]

speedtolosa last edited by

I use an old MacBook Pro (end of 2013) with Intel Core I7 processor, and running macOS Big Sur 11.7.10, last masOS version allowed on this hardware.

Currently running Opera 122.0.5643.92, the last update automatically installed (123.XXXXX) is not compatible with macOS 11.7, so each time I restart Opera, I have to reinstall the 122 version....

How an incompatible update can be automatically installed without any control of the OS version ?
Is it possible to stay with my current 122 version ?

Thanks for your help

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Yes, 123 is based on Chromium 139 that dropped support for macOS 11.7.

With that said, I reported the issue with 122 updating to 123 on 11.7. Hopefully Opera can fix things to block it.

For now, you can try blocking Opera's update servers in your etc/hosts file. Then, do sudo dscacheutil -flushcache in a terminal to flush your DNS.

You can see if you can find an autoupdate file in /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/ and delete it.

You can try doing:

defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true

in a terminal, but don't know if that will work or not.

You can create a shortcut to Opera that uses:

/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera --disable-update

and always use that shortcut to start Opera.

You can try adding:

export OPERA_AUTOUPDATE_DISABLED=1

as an enviroment variable. See https://www.google.com/search?q=macos+add+environment+variable for more info.

[speedtolosa]

speedtolosa @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 thank you for your help, it's OK with the command line "defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true" !