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Opera 10.53 won't open (10.4.11 PPC)
HiMy Opera automatically upgraded to 10.53, and now it won't start. I don't get an error message or anything, there is just nothing happening. I've tried restarting the machine and re-installing the new version manually, but nothing happens.
Kind regards
Sigve
And me - G5 (PPC) OS 10.4.11 too.
Though I've kind of gotten things to work on the Mac with the new version of Opera (10.53), there are still some serious glitches.
The worse one being keyboard action delay, overuse of CPU by Opera with beach balls galore and semi-freezes.
From what I've read here, it would indeed appear to be system version related. Tiger no go. ????
Not that it is any comfort to anyone, Opera 10.53 works a treat on my laptop PC (Win. Vista).
Though I've kind of gotten things to work on the Mac with the new version of Opera (10.53), there are still some serious glitches.
The worse one being keyboard action delay, overuse of CPU by Opera with beach balls galore and semi-freezes.
From what I've read here, it would indeed appear to be system version related. Tiger no go. ????
Not that it is any comfort to anyone, Opera 10.53 works a treat on my laptop PC (Win. Vista).
Plenty more time where it comes from...
10.52 never got further than just creating the Opera menu on my G4/10.4.11, on my dual G5 (almost a clone of the Powerbook, software-wise), it behaved exactly as danawinds reports. I'll give 10.53 a try, but against better hope.
Seems PowerPC related, as apparently greenhorn has it on a 10.5.8 install.
File bug reports! If 10.5x indeed works better than 10.10, than we clearly have little to lose!
Seems PowerPC related, as apparently greenhorn has it on a 10.5.8 install.
File bug reports! If 10.5x indeed works better than 10.10, than we clearly have little to lose!
Hmm, I only tried 10.53 out of the .dmg - didn't let Opera upgrade itself or do any sort of installation - and it works fine so far.
( on an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 and a G5 running 10.5.8 )
( on an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 and a G5 running 10.5.8 )
Equal opportunity blasphemist and insultant.
FNORD14. Wipe thine ass with what is written and grin like a ninny at what is Spoken. Take thine refuge with thine wine in the Nothing behind Everything, as you hurry along the Path.
THE PURPLE SAGE, HBT; The Book of Predictions, Chap. 19
FNORD14. Wipe thine ass with what is written and grin like a ninny at what is Spoken. Take thine refuge with thine wine in the Nothing behind Everything, as you hurry along the Path.
THE PURPLE SAGE, HBT; The Book of Predictions, Chap. 19
Wiped everything with appzapper, downloaded a fresh copy of Opera 10.53. So far it starts up and I've imported my bookmarks and wand.dat files.
In the other threads, the Opera team seem to be chasing 3rd party apps, when my experience here seems to say the fault lies within Opera itself.
For further reference, I don't use mail, widgets, unite or any of the other Opera bells and whistles.
Hope you folks can get this right. Opera on the Mac is better than ever(it's always kind of sucked since I switched from windows, and had given up on it in favor of browsers that play better with OS X).
In the other threads, the Opera team seem to be chasing 3rd party apps, when my experience here seems to say the fault lies within Opera itself.
For further reference, I don't use mail, widgets, unite or any of the other Opera bells and whistles.
Hope you folks can get this right. Opera on the Mac is better than ever(it's always kind of sucked since I switched from windows, and had given up on it in favor of browsers that play better with OS X).
I'm having the same trouble with the new 10.53. I'm using OS 10.4.8. I loved the previous version of Opera but this new one is not so great. It hangs each time I type or use my key board. I see the colored ball spin for about a minute each time I use the keyboard. I'm using Safari to type this message or it would never get done in Opera. Now if I can just find my old verson of Opera and I can't remember what that was. I've used it for so long with no trouble. It was the best browser I've ever used until now. Bummer.
I've deleted ~/Library/Caches/Opera/, but it still doesn't work. But now it crashes a bit differently. It “tries” to start for a longer period, and I get the error message that Opera has closed and that I can send a problem report, instead of just nothing happening like before.
Here's the report I get
http://rasmus.uib.no/~sho047/Opera10.53_error.html
Here's the report I get
http://rasmus.uib.no/~sho047/Opera10.53_error.html
We have a new development snapshot which should fix most of the problems users have had with startup crashers.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/05/05/startup-crashes-be-gone
1. Backup your computer (for example using Time Machine)
2. Download the snapshot and run it
3. If it works properly, try right-clicking Opera and choose Show Package Contents
4. Go to Contents/Resources/ and delete the file PrefsSuffix
5. Run it again (this will upgrade your install, bringing back bookmarks and settings)
Please report back if any of your are still encountering problems.
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/05/05/startup-crashes-be-gone
1. Backup your computer (for example using Time Machine)
2. Download the snapshot and run it
3. If it works properly, try right-clicking Opera and choose Show Package Contents
4. Go to Contents/Resources/ and delete the file PrefsSuffix
5. Run it again (this will upgrade your install, bringing back bookmarks and settings)
Please report back if any of your are still encountering problems.
Was suffering this problem with 10.4.11 PPC
Fixed it like this!
Open the Opera Universal .DMG file and DO NOT DRAG THE OPERA PROGRAM TO THE 'APPLICATIONS' FOLDER instead DRAG IT TO YOUR 'DESKTOP'!
'Double click' on this to Run it, to prove that it works.
I then found that if I moved it to the 'Applications' folder it would not work, so place it in the 'Utilities' folder and then make an alias of it.
Move the alias to the 'Applications' folder now use the alias or the 'Dock' item and it should Run.
This would seem to suggest some permission problem with 10.53 for the Mac
Fixed it like this!
Open the Opera Universal .DMG file and DO NOT DRAG THE OPERA PROGRAM TO THE 'APPLICATIONS' FOLDER instead DRAG IT TO YOUR 'DESKTOP'!
'Double click' on this to Run it, to prove that it works.
I then found that if I moved it to the 'Applications' folder it would not work, so place it in the 'Utilities' folder and then make an alias of it.
Move the alias to the 'Applications' folder now use the alias or the 'Dock' item and it should Run.
This would seem to suggest some permission problem with 10.53 for the Mac
Originally posted by Hin001:
Gee, I thought I was the only person having this problem, Sorry all of you are having the same problem. Hopefully Opera Developers will fix the problem in a timely manner.
at your own risk, development snapshot version 10.54
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/05/05/startup-crashes-be-gone
It runs for me under 10.4.11 but I dragged it to a different hard drive, not the Applications folder. However, while it does run, it's also a LOT slower than Opera 10.10 was, which makes the "Fastest Browser On Earth" slogan on the website a joke. I'm typing this now from 10.10, as I've already gone back to it. 10.53 is just too much of a big performance hit on my older system.
8. May 2010, 14:33:39 (edited)
+1 here, as Benboom said 10.53 is many times slower than 10.10 which itself is slower than Safari 4.
I´m on a PPC MAC with tiger.11
I´ve searched about this issue on google and many PPC are having problems with the lastest version of opera.
I´m on a PPC MAC with tiger.11
I´ve searched about this issue on google and many PPC are having problems with the lastest version of opera.
Champs is right on target! Moving Opera 10.10 from Apps to Utilities and running it from an alias inside Apps resurrects Opera 10.10 AND iGlasses. I'm not updating to 10.5.3 since so many PPC folks running Tiger 10.4.11 are complaining about memory, speed, etc.
Specs: Mac dual-boot MDD G4 running OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.4.11, Opera 10.10, external iSight, MacBook running 10.5.8, iPod Classic.
I also experienced the new 10.53 upgrade as a total non-starter on my Mac iBook G4 (running OS X 10.4.11 on a Power PC chip). Opera upgraded automatically, supposedly, but I saw nothing. When I clicked the icon to start, again, nothing. Downloaded the entire new version again and installed, still nothing. Finally came here to see if others were experiencing the same thing and saw Champs' solution about installing to the desktop, then to the Utilities folder, creating an alias and moving the alias to the Applications folder...that did the trick. Thanks, Champs!
Very strange...have never had any problems whatsoever with prior versions of Opera. Hope the techies get this one sorted out with a fix that gets things back to normal for future upgrades and installations...but if not, I guess this will work. Seems to load maybe a tad slower than before, but page loads seem to be very fast.
That's all folks!
Very strange...have never had any problems whatsoever with prior versions of Opera. Hope the techies get this one sorted out with a fix that gets things back to normal for future upgrades and installations...but if not, I guess this will work. Seems to load maybe a tad slower than before, but page loads seem to be very fast.
That's all folks!
Opera 10.60 installs and runs fine. But it's completely unusable, as it is ridicilously slow. Especially keyboard input does not function properly. Typing “The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” into this text box took approximately 8 seconds, and then there was a lag of 55 seconds before all the text had appeared. Also it seems to crash easily. Just in the period after having installed it, then tested it on an online newspaper, and then come here to write this, it has already crashed two times.
I originally thought the text input lag was a "too many" bookmarks issue, I tested it on a new account with 10.54 and did not experience the issues when I removed all bookmarks but then with 10.6 and later experienced it again even without bookmarks. The recent 10.60 is unusable.
It really can't be a bookmark issue because 10.10 worked perfectly with bookmarks so it has to be an Opera issue on the Mac that hasn't worked since 10.10 and apparently with as many users who have brought up this issue and reported bugs one would think Opera would listen but they don't seem to care about Mac users. I'm done messing around with Opera, they just left Mac users hanging. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser now since Opera doesn't seem to mind if we can't use theirs.
It really can't be a bookmark issue because 10.10 worked perfectly with bookmarks so it has to be an Opera issue on the Mac that hasn't worked since 10.10 and apparently with as many users who have brought up this issue and reported bugs one would think Opera would listen but they don't seem to care about Mac users. I'm done messing around with Opera, they just left Mac users hanging. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser now since Opera doesn't seem to mind if we can't use theirs.