Installing new versions of Opera...
Monday, 14. November 2005, 10:04:24
My browser has become increasingly unstable lately. It keeps crashing at the most inappropriate times leaving me doing much headscratching (thank god it saves the active session upon crashing). Also, all of a sudden, it fails to do really basic things like open PDF files. I have no clue as to why these things happen, but I'm guessing that upgrading to 8.5 would remedy it.
Well, yeah, but here's the deal - I'm reluctant to install new versions of Opera and bringing existing data over into the new install as I feel the entire process is pretty unpredictable. It feels a lot like a DIY hack when it really should be built right into the install program. I think that's one of my main problems with Opera right now, the poor quality of the setup procedure. It should come with a "upgrade from" or "import settings from" built right into it. And the way the install defaults to the existing Opera install is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen - the confusion this has caused me is remarkable. Also, there is no way I'm doing installs over existing ones. I've seen too many people lose precious data doing that.
While I'm not among the most tech-savvy here at Opera software, I'm certainly no dolt either, and I'm just thinking that if I feel reluctant to go through this, how about the regular Joe "the web is a big blue 'e'" Blow? I would really like to see this change for Opera 9 so that we ensure increased uptake of our product, which - despite my annoyances - is clearly the best of the lot.
Well, yeah, but here's the deal - I'm reluctant to install new versions of Opera and bringing existing data over into the new install as I feel the entire process is pretty unpredictable. It feels a lot like a DIY hack when it really should be built right into the install program. I think that's one of my main problems with Opera right now, the poor quality of the setup procedure. It should come with a "upgrade from" or "import settings from" built right into it. And the way the install defaults to the existing Opera install is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen - the confusion this has caused me is remarkable. Also, there is no way I'm doing installs over existing ones. I've seen too many people lose precious data doing that.
While I'm not among the most tech-savvy here at Opera software, I'm certainly no dolt either, and I'm just thinking that if I feel reluctant to go through this, how about the regular Joe "the web is a big blue 'e'" Blow? I would really like to see this change for Opera 9 so that we ensure increased uptake of our product, which - despite my annoyances - is clearly the best of the lot.
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Jere # 17. November 2005, 15:17
Installing Opera on top of a previous version has turned out to be very safe to do for me, apart from a problem I faced with 9.0 TP1 (but that's a technology preview after all), but if you want to be sure, take a backup of your data first.
Oh, and I agree Opera should have incremental updates. That would probably reduce the amount of data necessary to download a lot, and the update process could be entirely silent.