Uninstalled 10.53, but it sometimes installs itself again - how do I stop it?

Uninstalled 10.53, but it sometimes installs itself again - how do I stop it?

Short question: What file do I need to delete to prevent a forced update of 10.10 to 10.53?

THE STORY: I've always liked Opera as a browser superior to the alternatives.

Machine: Mac PPC 15-inch notebook running OSX 10.4.11.

Opera 10.10 ran fine. I found I could handle a couple of dozen tabs open at a time with very few issues, which is useful to me! The only issues are with Java and Flash sites. A lot of youtube videos don't load, so I just paste those into another browser.

Then I allowed the automatic update for 10.53. This doesn't download as a DMG. It just screws around somehow in unspecified folders and then announces the update is complete.

Disaster followed. 10.53 is not ready for primetime. Hitting a scroll key causes a very irritating, jerky set of jumps before it settles on the next screen. Closing a tab or window causes an enormous delay that eats up 90 percent or more of resources. For each window closed, all of the machine's operations stop and you watch a beachball for 40 seconds or more.

So I deleted 10.53 and recopied 10.10 from the old DMG, which I still had. Everything worked fine again.

Except, after loading the program a few times without problems, suddenly 10.53 mysteriously reinstalled itself. So I killed it again and put 10.10 back in. Everything's fine again, then a few days later, forced to repeat the procedure.

Somewhere on my machine there's a file that decides on its own to "update" Opera. Where is it? How can I kill it?

Otherwise I hope the programmers here can find a way to fix all the problems with 10.53.

(What I'd really appreciate is an anonymous browsing feature - do we have that already, somewhere?)

What you'll end up doing is going to Opera Preferences, then, under security, de-select the enable automatic install feature. Set it to never check for updates or, notify only. That'll solve that issue.

The reason is: it's all automatic and done behind the scenes. Then, at next launch or reboot- surprise- you've got the latest POS version. This latest version is just not good at all in my experience. I even downgraded all the way to 10.10 just to avoid all the issues I was having in 10.5.x versions.

cmcken1, thank you! I was looking around to see if there was such a button. I also found an "autoupdate" file in user/library/preferences/opera that mentioned 10.53, so I killed it.

I just don't understand how 10.53 could be such a step back. The rough scrolling and delays on closing windows are obvious bugs.

What Opera needs is better rendering of Java and Flash features. Also, built-in plugins for PDF and Word docs.

Local browsing would also be spectacular! I mean, so that you can see the directory tree.

The greatest feature of all, however, would be a choice that really worked for NOT reloading pages every time you press the back button. What a waste of time when it's all cached to nevertheless go through the process. (Does this exist?)

It's not supposed to reload when going back as Safari still does that on my Mac. I rarely use it but, when I do, it's a step back in time. So, to answer your question, no, it's not supposed to reload. I'm currently testing / checking out 10.54 and, it does not do that. The back button on my trackball has been programmed forever along with other mouse gestures that seem to work without issue in this version.

I found what I wanted in this thread. Thanks guys

I also had reverted to 10.10, but have just been auto upadated.

I am running PPC OS X 10.4.11 on an ibook G

My problems with Opera 10.5 were with the web page search which I use frequently. The appearance is wonderful, but the price paid is a spinning beach ball for 30-40 seconds.

Also my mail filters seem to have got messed up and all my mail is back in the Received view, despite the view options being set correctly to not show filtered mail.

I think I had some other gripes about 10.5 but I have been happily using 10.10 for the last few weeks and I forget what they were. I'm just waiting for the download of 10.10 to finish and then I shall get back to it and set my preferences in security to stop further up dates.

I hope Opera will sort this new version out but for now I am sticking with the old version.

EDIT .. ah thats better ..back with 10.10 now ... I remember another thing ... Every time I quit Opera 10.5 I got an error message that Opera had quit unexpectedly ... clearly not all is well with this latest version

Originally posted by theHobo2:

Every time I quit Opera 10.5 I got an error message that Opera had quit unexpectedly

Could be worse: The 10.10 version runs fine on Panther (OS X 10.3) but routinely references a symbol not implemented in the system's libraries…generating an Unexpected Quit almost every time!