Maybe this thing started out "light" in its infancy, but certainly not now. Thing is, other than what's installed by default, I don't have any additional plugins (yet). Adding up the consumed memory, Opera takes more. Looks like it invokes more processes at startup than Firefox, and just as many as Chrome. I installed Opera because I read it was reportedly "lighter" than other browsers. Pretty shoddy that you can't disable auto updates from the Opera settings window, eh?Įven more shoddy that it forces the permanent Auto Update setting on us without asking during installation. In any case, I'd prefer to control when to update Opera. To be fair, there is an option as to where to place downloads, but I don't want to be placing normal downloads in my Windows Temp folder. I wouldn't have been quite as annoyed had Opera put that garbage in my Windows Temp folder. I was getting tired of cleaning up auto-update garbage Opera kept putting into my Windows Download folder so I disabled the aforementioned auto update tasks from within Windows Task Scheduler. Those same online comments indicated that, in Windows, you have to open Task Scheduler and disable the Opera Auto Update tasks you find there. You can rename or delete "opera_autoupdate.exe", but from what I read online elsewhere, it'll come back after you force an update. Please keep in mind that Opera will not be updated automatically this way anymore, which is a security risk sooner or later, unless you take care of the updates yourself. Start the installation by double-clicking on this shortcut, not on the installer.
A Former User last edited by A Former automatic updates of an already installed version
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