Opera installed itself on my mac how?

[TurboJobo]

i downloaded mercury Im andd received a wink and i clicked on play wink then opera open!!! and played the wink on the page but how is opera in my macbook when i got to spotlight and type opera it can't find anything but i clicked on opera show in finder and suposely is on a folder called MacOS

 

[r.j.s]

Do you have any Adobe apps installed?

IIRC, CS3 installed Opera on mine a while ago ...

 

[TurboJobo]

yeah i got cs4 so it comes with it

 

[Jasoco]

I removed BOTH versions of Opera that were contained inside my Photoshop CS3 app. (Two different version numbers!) I also deleted the Bridge and Device Central apps and other stuff, including cutting out the PPC binary with Monolingual and pretty much getting Photoshop down to a total of 222MB (The Intel-only Photoshop itself is 118MB, the app was twice that size before losing its PPC binary.) in one folder. And it still works.

Adobe pulls some pretty stupid stuff. I had to go to a lot of trouble to trim down the bloat.

Opera is there for Photoshop's web stuff. Though why? Don't they think the user will already have a browser installed? Screw you, Adobe.

 

[r.j.s]

Opera is there for Photoshop's web stuff. Though why? Don't they think the user will already have a browser installed? Screw you, Adobe.

IIRC, Bridge requires Opera's render engine in order to browse your photos. Have you tried to use Bridge since deleting Opera?

 

[Matek]

I removed BOTH versions of Opera that were contained inside my Photoshop CS3 app. (Two different version numbers!) I also deleted the Bridge and Device Central apps and other stuff, including cutting out the PPC binary with Monolingual and pretty much getting Photoshop down to a total of 222MB (The Intel-only Photoshop itself is 118MB, the app was twice that size before losing its PPC binary.) in one folder. And it still works.

Adobe pulls some pretty stupid stuff. I had to go to a lot of trouble to trim down the bloat.

Opera is there for Photoshop's web stuff. Though why? Don't they think the user will already have a browser installed? Screw you, Adobe.

Installing stuff the user didn't ask for seems to be a common practice.

 

[aaron11193]

Installing stuff the user didn't ask for seems to be a common practice.

That's complete BS, Safari is offered but it isn't automatically checked for installation. You have to tell the updater to download it.

 

[Matek]

That's complete BS, Safari is offered but it isn't automatically checked for installation. You have to tell the updater to download it.

The news is old, they turned it off a couple of months after because of harsh criticism. The move was still rotten and I'm sure it brought in a bunch of users at an important time (it was on by default right after the release of Safari for Windows).

 

[Jasoco]

IIRC, Bridge requires Opera's render engine in order to browse your photos. Have you tried to use Bridge since deleting Opera?

Did you read my entire post which says that I deleted Bridge? And Device Central? Two applications that I will never use. Ever. In a million years.

If I want to browse photos, I will use the Finder and Spotlight or the Open dialog with Icons turned on an big. Bridge is a glorified gallery. OS X gives me a better gallery. So in the trash that bloated piece of junk Bridge goes.

 

[r.j.s]

Did you read my entire post which says that I deleted Bridge? And Device Central? Two applications that I will never use. Ever. In a million years.

Oddly, I missed the word deleted.

The advice stands for anyone else, it is there for a reason, don't just go deleting it.