automatic upgrade

automatic upgrade

I'm sorry to have to post this in a forum, but I didn't find a way to contact opera directly in this issue.

But I hope that some Opera officials sometimes read their own forum.

I want, no, I have to say good bye today. Writing this text is the last Internet action involving Opera from my side. I'm sad about that since IVe been using Opera for over 10 years now and I always felt safe and had fun. Some gizmos didn't work, but who cares.

It's over now. I will look for another browser, since Opera did what I consider the high possible degree of fraud, a program could do to its user. Opera uploaded an upgrade without asking and installed it without asking as well!!! The first time this attempt started I believed it might have been a mistake, shit happens, and stopped the installation manually. I really thought of a "browser mistake" on my side...! I could have downloaded the upgrade accedentially. But now I realized that this was not the case - it happened again... . And it happend using port 80. No chance to block by my firewall, because this port is free and the application is allowed to have net access.

Sorry, I don't feel safe any more. Opera does things behind my back.

That's the definite end of the relation between Opera and myself.

Now I'll deinstall.

Automatic Updates

Did you not see a dialogue box like this on updating to Opera 10.0 when automatic updates were first introduced?

I did not get that message (on several PC's under my control). I think it mybe dissapeared along with those automatic security updates from Windows Update (on XP) with following automatic restart of OS.
At least at one PC I noticed that Opera started updating during boot.

mvh Arne

And for those of us who don't like tings happens without our knowledge its possible to deactivate the automatic update function. (both in Opera and Windows Update) :-)

I have seen several claims on this forum about Opera updating automatically without permission, but I have yet to see any explanation of how this could happen. It would seem to be totally impossible on versions prior to Opera 10.0 which was the first to have this feature.

I have a clean installation of Opera 10.1 for which the default setting of Level of Update Automation of 1 ensures that it is not updated automatically. If I manually check for updates, do not clear the checkbox to enable auto-updates, and click on "Remind me later" — the level of update automation is not changed, and the dialogue will come up again later, or if I manually check for updates.

Unless some users are sharing a computer, or accepting automatic updates, I see no reason to believe the allegations that: “Opera uploaded an upgrade without asking and installed it without asking as well.”

Of course, any program that has autoupdate enabled (level of update automation = 2) can and should do this, but it is a setting accepted by the user.