Opera

Until this morning, Opera was running fine on my 32 bit XP machine.

Did an OS reinstall to get rid of a niggling problem. The niggling problem has gone, but so too has Opera.

Now find it will not reinstall: some kind of incompatibility message flashes when installer should run, but lasts about a tenth of a second, so I cannot read what it says.

Boo hoo! is there a fix?

 

above from here

I would advise you to download an older version of opera

 

It's because new Opera is a Chrome Clone, you'll want to use version 48 or 12.18.

 

Despite the fact Opera said they would support XP until at least 2017, they ended support last month or so early. Opera now only supports Vista and up. I myself was pretty angry about this since Chrome doesn't work and I HATE firefox since its slow to start and is kind of cluttery.

 

Thanks to all of you for all that information: have been too busy to keep abreast of the news in respect of this, and I had not realised that they had moved on.

Opera 36 now restored to said machine. Thanks.

 

ps Anyone using Tor on XP?

 

I sometimes use Tor, yes, not often though because of reCAPTCHA deliberately breaking if you try to complete it on Tor Browser.

 

After version 36, Opera no longer runs on XP. BUT, the company also promised to keep version 36 updated still with security patches...

Anyways, the (future) updates to version 36 will be found here:

ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/desktop

 

Opera are nice, the people behind it are, and that's why they decided to do that, a nice thing indeed ^^