Opera have just joined the ranks of “companies unable to write auto update software”. My working install of Opera, running on a Macbook with Tiger auto updated itself yesterday. Of course, the Opera auto updater, like the Skype for Mac auto updater fails to check the OS version used before it installs the new version.
Yes, you guessed it, the version of Opera that the Opera auto updater installed was not compatible with Tiger.
So it was back off to the Opera website, where I tried to find the last good version of Opera. I thought I had been using 10.63 but once re-installed it refused to fetch webpages as did 10.62. Eventually I discovered that the last version of Opera for Tiger was 11.11 and re-installed that. Voila! My bookmarks and Speed Dial were back as they were.
So this week’s brickbat goes to Opera. It is a shame as I thought Opera were better than the rest. Nothing like a cock-up to bring you face to face with reality.
Suffice it to say that auto updating is now turned off in my copy of Opera.