opera mysteriously installed itself

[nutman]

I don't remember installing opera at all. But when I was opening a torrent file, opera launched itself. When I look inside of my applications folder, there is no opera app and the only instance of its existance is in the library application support folder. [When I open the folder and click on the about opera file, it will also launch opera.] How do I get rid of this. Not that I don't like opera, but it feels a bit odd. AppZapper does not detect it at all if that helps.

 

[vniow]

Installed CS3 lately? It comes with it for some reason.

 

[cubbie5150]

Discovered the same thing after I installed CS3... I first became aware of it when right-clicking a .png file, and Opera showed-up in my choice of "open with" programs. I was like "WTF?!?!"

 

[nutman]

oooh. okay. I did install CS3. That is so weird though. First they do a funky uninstall thing and now they sneak in programs.

 

[stoid]

Opera has been included with Flash at least since MX. However, in the past it's been in the Flash folder in your applications folder, and not in application support.

 

[Indyan]

CS3 uses Opera's rendering engine (like CS2).
http://www.macworld.com/news/2003/09/30/opera/index.php?redirect=1064917029000
http://operawatch.com/news/2007/03/...uses-built-in-opera-for-rendering-engine.html
But, it looks like adobe has changed how Opera is installed, and that is creating the problems.

 

[Markleshark]

Boo, CS3.