... continued:

You have referrred in your reply to W8: Do Opera programmers recognize that most Business users use W7 SP1 Pro waiting for W10? As some other software producers experience some software issues due to differences between W7 and W8, W8 should not be the first reference at all.

In addition: Would Opera staff acknowldege that a lot of users have issues with automatic updates for any kind of software, so Opera should allow to let the user choose the way of updating your software himself?

leocg:

Thank you again for your hints.

Meanwhile, I have completely removed Opera 24 from this machine and done a clean new install. Opera 24 is now stable the standard browser. No more pop-ups.

Regarding your last remarks, as you are probably as a moderator working for Opera, here are some hints for you:

As making changes to software as admin, Opera should be able to change registry entries. Has not done this with the update, so the update process seems to have a problem.

To me, it seems that all problems have occured with the automatic update: There seems to be a problem updateing from any version 21-23. In difference to the update, Opera has been installed in the path ...\Program Files\Opera merging the path with Opera 12 instead of creating a seperate path as Opera 21 - 23 have done. Running the clean install, Opera 24 identifies itself as Opera Stable now (W7 SP 1), in difference to the automatic update.

leocg: Thank you for the hints.

Laptop is protected by Kaspersky Endpoint Security with weekly complete check for malware - check was of course performed in addition when problems occured - no malware. No unusual additional network traffic. No other software performs in an unusual way including mail servers and clients (The Bat).

Pop-Up and links: Opening an definitively unsuspicious site as www.t-online.de (Address and network routing checked for malrouting and phishing) opens additional tabs with advertising sites as well as advertising pop ups, never seen this for years up to Opera 23.

Treating problems with software is always performed with admin rights.

Choosing MS IE as standard browser works well and IE as well as Windows remembers the settings.

With Opera 12.17 and Opera 24 both installed (of course in different directories) control panel has difficulties distinguishing these browsers. No problem with Opera 23.

So, apart from the issue with automatic updates without permission by admin / user, which you did not mention in your comment, the problem seems (on my pooint of view) to be Opera 24.

Sorry

As I mentioned above, I was quite happy with Opera for years, with a little loss since Opera 21, but I do not want to spent either my time nor the time of my employees repairing software bugs. So, if there is no change within a reasonable time, Opera will not be the standard browser for our company even longer.

First of all, as other participants in this forum, I have severe isuues with software updating without any request to the user / administrator of the running system. Nobody should change settings and software versions without request. Computer and settings are not owned by Opera.

Problem: I have been running Opera 12.17. and Opera 23 on my laptop (W7 SP1) just for the reason, that up to this day it was not possible to export safely passords and some special bookmarks from 12 to 23. Opera 23 was marked as standard browser, and I opened Opera 12 only for this issue. Not necessary to mention that it has been quite an adventure to get most of the settings from 12 to initial 21 up now to 23

With the last NOT AUTHORIZED update to Opera 24 a lot of issues have occurred: Even pop-ups are marked as not allowed in the settings of 24, almost every second website opens advertising or other pop ups or opens links to different websites without any prompt or reqeust - I have never experienced this in Opera before. Loading websites is slower than before - I tested it with my own company website.

Worst of all: With the update, Opera 24 claims that it is not any more the standard browser for my system. Even when checking the appropiate checkbox when starting Opera to set Opera 24 as standard browser, Opera doesn't remember this at next start up. So, when opening a link from a text document or from the desktop, Opera 12 opens.

I Hope that there will be a simple solution for this crap within short time. Otherwise, after 20 years of using Opera, I will leave it as any other browser will do better.