First, let me thank everyone involved for portable apps. Use it daily.
One app I really like, Opera (has a built in VPN!), is somehow horribly implemented on Portable Apps. I don't know what it's doing, maybe sending files to the mothership, but it takes minutes for it to shutdown properly and there is an intense amount of disk activity involved. If you don't wait for it to finish, you'll get a "not properly closed/cleaned" message when you attempt to start it next and then you'll wait and wait with no indication that it has completed its mission - whatever that is.
Like I said, Opera is a wonderful browser and fortunately they have their own portable edition and it works great. So, my advice is to dump the Portable Apps version and jump over to Opera's official portable app, running it independently of PApp.
Keep up the good work.
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There are no changes to Opera itself in our package. It even retains the ability to automatically update internally (it's set to do so if you use it without the PA.c Platform). The only thing done is that it moves the platform to and from the location expected by Opera from the location used by our format, backup, etc. Opera takes a while to close when you use the built in VPN if I recall correctly. It's just that if you use Opera's version they don't notify you if you ejected before it closed.
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I'm just stating the facts. Something must have happened when it was converted to a pApp, and that something makes it almost unusable. It's a great little browser, and I want to let people know there is a good alternative ( http://www.opera.com/computer/portable ). I tried to use the pApp version for months hoping for an update that would correct the problems. On USB 3 it takes almost 4 minutes for it to close. If you pull it before that time your USB has a the potential to become corrupt. and will be in read only mode when plugged back in. I use the pApp versions of Thunderbird, Seamonkey, Firefox and Chrome without a hitch.
I just tried our Opera Portable package with VPN enabled (hadn't tested it before), browsed some pages, closed it. All Opera processes as well as the OperaPortable.exe process closed within about 3 seconds. Have you tried a clean install of Opera Portable to your Desktop directory temporarily to see if it's drive or configuration related?
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I do not think it is a portable apps issue as I have been to the main opera forum and many people are reporting the same issue. Is there anywhere I can download an older version? I did not have this problem in December and January.
Second this!
I had this same problem with the opera portable app, then I switch to the official Opera portable, the same happened.
I don't suggest use an old version browser for security reasons.
I've also read that Opera provides free VPN (https://www.bestvpnrating.com/news/new-opera-browser-comes-surfeasy-exte...) and decided to give it a try. But the country choices shown for their IPs does not include the UK - why not? So this app cannot be used in the UK? I am in the UK - is that the reason?