'vbeen using OperaPortable for a while now, but it's slow, sloooow, slooooooooooooow! and it keeps on moving the profile or sometimes even losing it.
recently turned to opara@usb (www.opera-usb.com): Fast and no profile-bouncing
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Opera@USB is just a standard Opera install now and then just zipped. So you can just grab regular Opera from opera.com and install that way.
There is a bug in Opera Portable where it won't properly handle a profile shutdown if you've locked it (by having it open files like PDFs, etc directly from the web, which causes Windows to lock files and prevents things from moving so they end up being copied... which gets SLOW). This will be fixed in the 11.10 release (or possibly a Rev release this week depending on release timing).
Keep in mind that Opera, Portable Edition will work with the PA.c updater, supports the PA.c backup utility, portablizes any local paths you have set in your Opera profile, etc. Standard Opera (and hence Opera@USB) do not.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Before Opera 10 it had another executable (opera-usb.exe) along opera.exe. I remember it being a batch (it showed a CMD window for a fraction of second before hiding).
Regarding the loss of profile issue, that's due to re-opening Opera Portable before it's finished copying your settings (profile) back into the
Datafolder (for easy backup with the PortableApps.com Backup utility, part of the PortableApps.com Platform, downloadable Here) when something has locked it, and as stated in This Comment it's being worked on.Regarding the Portability of Opra@USB, as stated in This Comment, it's literally an extracted copy of the regular installation version of Opera with little to no portablization of settings, and it also leaves junk in every host PC's registry; it is NOT truly "Portable".
Edit: ACK! Ninja'd
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maybeI type slow :()~3D1T0R
OK, thanks for the comments! Haven't uninstalled it yet... But really, it's often very slow, not just after opening certain files. Hope you're succesfull solving that, and again thanks.
Michael.