Tuesday, 24 December 2019

browser - How to disable automatic updates in Opera?


some features in opera 25 are changes, with old documentations. I want to disable Opera auto update.


For this I read this opera webpage however there is no more "preferences" in opera menu.


so how to change this option?


update:


thank you all, and here is why.


Sometimes we are forced to do that, you will realize that with too many applications ask for updates over a slow connection or limited access traffic, the updates will be awful, horrible, consume the bandwidth, and prevent me doing my job, so I need some control, when to allow the updates to start and when to stop it. all other applications(Firefox, eclipse, even antiviruses and windows 7, ...etc ) give us an API to control updates, some of these applications informed with the risk and we decide when to update it. it is Ok to update as default behavior, but do not take the decision on behalf of me, let me change this, I know what am doing, and I am responsible for that.



Answer





  • The help page you linked is for old Opera 12.16 (Presto engine). They are outdated for Opera 15+




  • Currently there is no built-in preference to disable Auto Update in Opera 15+




  • Some command line switch from Chome work in Opera too since they both use on the same engine


    ..\Opera\Launcher.exe --check-for-update-interval=0

    After a short test I would say this one doesn't work




But




  • You can delete (or rename) opera_autoupdate.exe which is used to check for newer versions


    ...\Opera\26.0.1655.0\opera_autoupdate.exe

    After this, Opera displays an error which you won't see unless you open opera:\\about


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