Opera 29 - update check takes forever

[sparrow93]

sparrow93 last edited by

Thanks, didn't know it

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

That's not the cause of the problem on my system.
It's a standalone "USB" install and opera_autoupdater.exe does not exist on my system at all, and never has.

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Pretty interesting,
Thanks guys, may need to get another Browser as I cant have this on a pop up any longer, its driving me mad, or madder lol
cheers

[sparrow93]

sparrow93 last edited by

Does anyone have some kind of update on this situation ?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

There is an entry in the changelog of Opera developer 31 that may be related:

DNA-37933 Auto-updater crashes on Windows XP

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

I can confirm that it's fixed for me in the latest update today to developer 31.0.1857.0.
:yes:

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[athlonite]

athlonite last edited by

why do you people keep expecting miracles when using an EOL OS like XP just upgrade to windows 8.1 already is there some specific reason you absolutely need to run an EOL OS

[lando242]

lando242 last edited by

Probably because their PCs are old enough to vote in the upcoming elections.

[athlonite]

athlonite last edited by

actually 8.1 will run quite happily on any win XP box that has reasonable specs ie: intel P4 2.06GHz and 1GB of ram it's just not as piggy as vista or 7 (Vista being the most piggy of the two)

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

Whether people should still be running obsolete operating systems or not is irrelevant.
The fact is that Opera still state that they support Windows XP, and that being the case, Opera should work properly with it.
There are still a massive number of PCs in the world running XP, whether Microsoft or anyone else like it or not!

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

The fact is that Opera still state that they support Windows XP

Just remembering that Opera only suports XP SP3 and newer.

[sparrow93]

sparrow93 last edited by

Thanks for the heads-up :). I just hope that next stable release will solve this problem.

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

why do you people keep expecting miracles when using an EOL OS like XP just upgrade to windows 8.1 already is there some specific reason you absolutely need to run an EOL OS

My pc is a brand new windows 8.1 pc, I installed Opera to get away IE and Google chrome, never had any issues with Opera except now when there is a message stating "An error occurred while checking for updates"
so please change your wording Mr davehawley

has anyone else got any ideas to rectify this issue yet?

Thanks

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

It's fixed, and was supposedly a problem that only affected XP, as leocg has already pointed out.
Why exactly should I "change my wording" BTW?

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[blackbird71]

blackbird71 last edited by

@davehawley, based on the quoted text in @mascotty02's post, he should have directed his comment toward @athlonite instead of you. In any case, that he's having the problem with a new computer and Win 8.1 pretty well lays to rest simply blaming XP obsolescence for the "error" problem, at least in some situations.

[davehawley]

davehawley last edited by

Indeed, and I still stand by my comment that XP being an EOL OS is irrelevant in this situation, as Opera still maintain that they support it, and until they officially drop that support it's perfectly valid to query errors that happen when using it.

Still in mourning for Opera 12.........

[Deleted User]

Deleted User last edited by

Version: 30.0.1835.52 - Checking for updates...
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 7 64-bit (WoW64) The same situation, checking for updates for ever!...

[avksentiy5]

avksentiy5 last edited by

Very good program !