Opera, Portable Edition 12.16 has been released. Opera, Portable Edition is a lightweight, customizable browser designed for speed. It's the popular Opera™ web browser packaged as a portable app, so you can take your browser with you and it's in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. This release updates Opera to the latest version. It's freeware for personal and business use.
Opera, Portable Edition is packaged with permission from Opera Software ASA. Opera™ is a trademark of Opera Software ASA.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
Opera, Portable Editions's features include:
- Mouse gestures - Perform common browser actions easily with quick movements of your mouse.
- Opera Turbo - Speed up browsing on slow connections by compressing webpages before downloading them.
- Speed Dial - Access your favorite webpages instantly with a single click.
- Opera Link - Synchronize data of your choice online or across different computers and devices.
- Customization - Change the layout of buttons and toolbars, or choose from many beautiful skins.
- Opera Mail - Our built-in mail client lets you efficiently manage your email right from within Opera.
- Opera Unite - With only a few clicks you can share photos, music, and more – right from your computer.
- Content blocking - Control your view of webpages by easily removing annoying images, animations and content.
- Sophisticated tabs - See your open webpages easily with visual tabs, or use private tabs to protect your privacy.
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PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Opera, Portable Edition is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Opera, Portable Edition is available for immediate download from the Opera, Portable Edition homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
Opera 15 Progressing
I'm still working on Opera 15 and debating when is a good time to start the transition. The Opera 15 portable installer creates a semi-portable version of Opera. Unfortunately, in addition to the full path issues of old Opera's semi-portable installer, the password database is entirely tied to a single machine as it is with Chrome, Iron, Chromium, etc due to the way webkit on Windows is tied to the OS and some of Internet Explorer's internals. So, there is current no version of Opera 15 that is actually portable.
Also unfortunately, Opera isn't compatible with our portablization methods for Chrome, Chromium or Iron out of the box, so we're working on a custom solution to make Opera actually be portable.
And, finally, Opera 15 is lacking quite a few features that folks were expecting to be included in the initial release that Opera is promising in the next version. So we're debating waiting for that.
Thanks a lot for the next 12
Thanks a lot for the next version of the 12 branch. As long it is supported and developed, I will keep my thumbs up for your hard work.
I do not care too much for version 15, because for me it is a step back, but this is another question.
new opera
I don't think it's worth including opera15+ until it has vital features like conventional native bookmarks included which include a far faster way to import them than the 2 methods they seem to offer (1 via an addon) --- took over an hour to import/convert to their preferred speedial solution running opera 15 on hard drive (how long on a flash drive?)which imo is very poor .. in fact beyond pathetic & produces a mess of big icons generated from downloading every linked page (bad for portability on a flash drive?)& junks folder structure beyond level 1!
I completely agree
I like the integration of the Chromium engine with Opera, but, my computer and Chrome don't get along anyway...the engine and Windows 7 doesn't like to work with the tabs or things like that. Otherwise functionality is good, but, all of the integrated things (like email and all of the other panel functions) are not included in 15.
Any plan for a x64 version?
Any plan for a x64 version? I run windows 8 (x64).
Going Away
Opera has dropped their x64 build with Opera 15 and up (since it's based on Google Chrome's Blink engine which similarly has no Windows x64 build). 12.x will be discontinued shortly as well. As such, there's really no reason to.
64-bit browsers on Windows likely won't gain much traction for a while. The only current browser that supports it is IE when it is pre-installed (and IE64 isn't used by default, IE32 is). Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Iron, etc on Windows do not offer 64-bit builds. Firefox has an unsupported nightly Windows x64 build but it has multiple known bugs and is only of pre-Alpha quality.
Next step after Opera 12.16
I like very much this release, Opera 12.16 portable. Are you working on a newer version currently? I am not sure how stable is Opera 16 right now although on Opera site is the main download option. Unfortunately, Turbo mode of this new version is not properly working for me and some users.
Detailed Here
We have details on the Outdated Apps Page: https://portableapps.com/development/outdated
We're still evaluating it. The "portable" version created by Opera's installer is definitely not portable as some features like saved passwords are tied to one PC and break as soon as you move. So, we'll need to at least do custom code for that as we do for our other WebKit/Blink browsers (Chrome, Iron, Chromium). Additionally, it's still slow from flash drives due to the heavy IO of the new bookmark system.