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Opera's there, but its not...

Hls811

Hls811

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Ok - I'm stumped with this one.. for some reason certain tasks will allow me to use Opera as my browser, either to open an HTML page or BitTorrent. For example if i go to a Doc or Torrent file and choose 'Open as...' Opera is listed as an option. Yet Opera is not installed on my computer - I don't think since I did a fresh install of Leopard I even went to the Opera website..

The weirdest part is, if I do a spotlight search for Opera no apps or files come up which would direct me to where this is installed so that i can uninstall it. alot of documents come up that contains the word 'opera' but nothing related..

The frustrating part is that it seems to have taken over the file association w/ all my of my torrent files; even if I manually select the correct app (transmission) and then check off "Always Open with" - it'll revert the default back to Opera.

Any ideas? its kind of annoying!
 
Have you installed any Adobe software? Photoshop, that sort of application?

I know it comes bundled with that for some reason, I have the same thing you've described.

It's easy enough to re-assign the program you want to open your torrents, just right click on one, goto Get Info, change the 'Open with' to the program of your choice, and then click 'Change All...' . That should sort it. :)
 
Osarkon said:
Have you installed any Adobe software? Photoshop, that sort of application?

I know it comes bundled with that for some reason, I have the same thing you've described.

It's easy enough to re-assign the program you want to open your torrents, just right click on one, goto Get Info, change the 'Open with' to the program of your choice, and then click 'Change All...' . That should sort it. :)
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I did install Photoshop, but its the same one I had w/ Tiger and never had that happen... And for some reason the "Open With" feature didn't take - once I close out of everything Opera takes over again. - I did try that before posting...

I also followed the link Eraserhead sent and did the manual disable of Opera's Torrent and re-association with an application - and all that does is open Opera AND Transmission at the same time!!!

This really annoys me that somehow Opera is installed on my MBP and I can't uninstall it - to me, its no different than Spyware (and that was one of the reasons I switched from a PC!)

I'm going to try and download Opera, and then do an unistall - hopefully that'll get rid of everything - otherwise I'm going to be one cranky Opera Hatin' SOB! :)
 
Opera is included with Adobe Products, and has been for some time. People get spooked when they see it, but its completely benign. Adobe only uses its rendering engine for some things. And also, calling it spyware is unneccesary, because its not broadcasting any information about you to anyone. The problem here is that you installed an application and didnt bother to check what was gonna be installed...
 
Blubbert said:
Opera is included with Adobe Products, and has been for some time. People get spooked when they see it, but its completely benign. Adobe only uses its rendering engine for some things. And also, calling it spyware is unneccesary, because its not broadcasting any information about you to anyone. The problem here is that you installed an application and didnt bother to check what was gonna be installed...
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Thats fine if it needs to install it - but how to I UNINSTALL it?


I did download and install the latest version and then tried removing it, but afterwards its still the same as before.

I didn't mean it was spyware in the sense that its transmitting information back, I meant it more than its an annoyance - something I didn't install - don't recall EVER seeing an option or warning telling me it was installing and is overwriting settings and the way in which I want to use my computer.
(If its a part of Adobe, thats fine - I just don't recall seeing it before I did a clean install to Leopard, and I don't like that its not un-installable (or allowing me to just not use it).
 
OK - I got rid of it... I un-installed Adobe Bridge and Device Central - I don't use either, but it was somehow linked to those.

And for what its worth - on my other Mac with Leopard and CS3 installed, Opera doesn't show up in the "Open With..." lists... Seems like something I had on my MBP provoked it and make it start...

Oh well - as long as its gone!
 
Hls811 said:
Oh well - as long as its gone!
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Who would even want to get rid of Opera? :rolleyes: I love Opera, because if other browsers were kinky people, Opera would be spanking them and making them its sex slaves.

In all seriousness, though, I understand being frustrated at not knowing when a program gets installed with another. I've had a lot of problems like that, but did you give Opera a chance at all, by any chance? :D *Opera Fanboy*
 
ZiggyPastorius said:
Who would even want to get rid of Opera? :rolleyes: I love Opera, because if other browsers were kinky people, Opera would be spanking them and making them its sex slaves.

In all seriousness, though, I understand being frustrated at not knowing when a program gets installed with another. I've had a lot of problems like that, but did you give Opera a chance at all, by any chance? :D *Opera Fanboy*
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I'm sure its fine browser - I use OperaMini on my Blackberry, but on my Mac all I need is Safari :D *Mac Fanboy* ;)
 
Hls811 said:
... but on my Mac all I need is Safari :D *Mac Fanboy* ;)
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Still thinking like a Windows user. Opera and Safari are completely independent of each other. As such, they do not interfere with each other. Both browsers are tops in terms of standards-compliance. Having both on your machine allows you to use both to workaround device-dependencies that some webmasters build into their sites.
 
MisterMe said:
I have Safari, Opera, and BitTorrent. On my machine, Opera has no effect at all on torrents.
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That was my initial issue - it did hijack the torrents..

Regardless, I actually did try Opera on my mac before, for the reason you stated - to work around a Safari issue, but unfortunately - even Opera couldn't read the page.. For some reason it required IE6 or higher and I couldn't figure out a way around that...

I'm not knocking Opera as a browser, like I said, I'm sure its fine (and I LOVE it on my Blackberry) - I just haven't found a need for it. I like to keep as few things on my Mac as I need, thats all..
 
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