Count me among the very many longtime users -- quite easily now observed posting online -- who absolutely despise the new Opera One that it has morphed into. So I hope this is still possible . . . but I could not find an existing download link for the older versions at Portableapps. This had long been my favorite of the 5 browsers that I keep available for use. The new UI is hideous, and the browser is bloated with features I did not want and have no use for. Others have been advising me to just ditch it and move to Brave, Librewolf, or Mullvadbrowser. (None of these will be portable though.) I'm willing to live with potential / supposed security issues of an older Opera version for quite some time. This would extend time for me to transition away to primary use of one of the others. In a previous topic thread here it has already been covered that the Update function for the portable version stopped working (or was disabled) some time ago, so that is one key thing users of an older portable version would not have to deal with.
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Note that Opera itself, since I checked, does not distribute older versions.There are downloads from third-party but unreliable sites.LibreWolf is now portable.
You can download it here.
If you want a rather robust browser that won't give you problems you can opt for Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition.
Mullvadbrowser (even more restrictive than LibreWolf and therefore for advanced users, not portable) and Brave (Full Telemetry, Not Portable) I would advise against them.
Brave is open source.
And I'm not quite sure what you mean by "full telemetry". Brave calls home less than any of the mainstream browsers, and many of those on by default can be turned off.
You are right, Brave is Open Source, my mistake.
As for the telemetry the free project "Spyware Watchdog" says the opposite
: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
In any case, the user is looking for a portable browser and not an installation one.
That review of Brave is 2 years old, and some things have changed since it was written. Also many of their arguments for the high level given are just that things are opt-out instead of opt-in.
I'm not "attacking" anyone. I just commented to let you know you had a couple of details that were incorrect.
If you are trying to insinuate that I am ignoring the original post, your answer said more than I would have so I felt no need to echo it, so I simply replied to you with the couple of details I felt needed to be added.
I've gotten this same response multiple times in the past, but I don't agree. Some things change, sure, but Brave is always much talked about for its Telemetry.
On the Brave browser I disagree, but I respect your opinion.
There was nothing malicious in anything I said, and if you feel that is enough to force you to leave I'm sorry to hear it.
I have used the phrase "just FYI" with people from around the world for years, and this is the first time someone has read offence into it where it wasn't intended.
I didn't think you were deliberately trying to mislead anyone. I just saw something incorrect and let you know otherwise.
And please understand I'm also doing this for free - our forum moderators are all volunteers who started as members of the community.
You're right, maybe I should be as short as possible. I put too many details. I usually do it to make the subject understand in detail.
I discovered LibreWolf here as a portable shortly after placing the original post. I suppose I would qualify as an advanced user, but how willing I am at this point to wrestle with complex software and its settings (that is altogether new to me) could be another matter.
Also, I discovered that I had in fact downloaded a May edition of the Portable v. 99, and lost track of that. (Not allowing past versions for download was something less than a surprise. Third party site sources would not be a problem, provided that reliable checksums were available for comparison.) While I'd rather have the final June edition of v. 99 to work with, I can at least use the one I have for the back-level.
It's true that I do have a preference towards portable versions of programs -- and then, only for the .PAF type, as other portable types that you encounter leave annoying detritus behind each time they are run. ("Skel" directory, etc.) That said, I do make use of a mixture of installed + portable apps. The .PAF type is neat and clean, showing all its cards face up on the table. You'll know everything that is there, and its structure.
I began my use of Opera years ago, exclusively with these portable editions. They are updated in a very different manner than the installed version, a process I've gotten used to. I think it would be convoluted and ungainly to "switch horses" at this late date, and in any case we are now stuck with Opera One, which in my view is Wile E. Coyote going over the steep cliff -- a non-starter.
I became much less a fan of FireFox when certain changes started creeping in, after "Legacy" version 5290. SeaMonkey is kind of creaky and clunky, but after these recent developments looking better in retrospect. The availability of certain browser extensions that I consider "key" is another important factor.
Guess I'll have to look into those other browser options.
HI
, I fully understand your needs. I have thought whether you were a basic or intermediate user because not specified. If you are an advanced user I don't think you would have difficulty using LibreWolf.
I need to update what I wrote, just now I found an old discussion on the Opera forum where an official repository is linked to download all versions of Opera (even older ones).
You can extract the setup in OperaPortable\App\Opera by replacing the files. For the test I used PeaZip because 7-Zip encountered an error and could not extract all the content.
Thanks for that update, SimonGeek. Glad to see that those earlier versions do indeed exist for download, with the checksums included for reference. However, these all appear to be for the installed editions, rather than for the portable ones. (Unless the core Opera.Exe can simply be swapped in to the portable version, with no further do do or ill effect ? That is to say, interchangeable ?)
I did manage to find a version 99 of the portable -- 99.0.4788.13 -- from last May, which I had downloaded, never did anything with, and whose presence I had overlooked. That is what I used to do the back-level just now. Blessed relief: things again look and behave the way that they should ! I had zero use for the new features and other changes. Hopefully this version has no important shortcomings, vs. the final v. 99 from the end of June. For extraction purposes, there are other options, such as WinRar and UniExtract. Current versions of the archivers can make a difference also. (If we're talking about an OperaPortable.Exe, these seem to be standard archives, which contents open for inspection using PKZip.)
You can download any version you want, just replace the content in the indicated folder (OperaPortable\App\Opera) so you can use the PortableApps.com Launcher and avoid leaving traces of Opera on the local PC.
I usually prefer Open Source software (like 7-Zip or PeaZip) over others, they all work great (UniExtract it is no longer under development unfortunately and WinRar It is paid software). Peazip worked fine.
Thanks for letting me find out PKZip, I did not know him.
PKZip is (I think) the *original* archiver standard. It also became payware, although the command line version (PKZipC) was available for free for quite a long time. It can probably still be found for free, with a bit of looking. I have my file manager program call it for use in a seamless fashion.