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Use the Opera browser anywhere, by just carrying a small self-contained file!
Introducing Opera Portable, the Opera browser that has been repacked so that you can run Opera by just clicking, without the need of installation or administrator rights. With download size of approximately 6 MB, you get the same features of Opera compared to what you get in the installation version (even Flash Player 9 is included). Of course it's free!
Update (2008-8-30): Opera Portable 9.52 is released! There are some new changes besides the version number. Enjoy!
Users of Opera Portable Builder may update the version by changing the last part of the download URL to 20080830.
Features
- No registry entries are created or modified
- No effect to existing installed browsers, either IE, Firefox or Opera
- No trace left after exiting - files are overwritten, not just deleted
- Doesn't make your USB drive tired - all code and data are stored in a temporary place on host computer
- Create multiple profiles for different places
- Easy to distribute and use, not limited to USB sticks or CDs
Support Opera Portable!
Opera Portable is completely free and will always remain free, which means you can use it free of charge for any purposes (subject to Opera Software's license agreement). If you are satisfied with Opera Portable and want to help motivate the development, any amount of donation will be welcomed and gratefully appreciated.
Download
- Opera Portable Personal 9.52 (English, other languages see below)
You can manage multiple profiles at once! For example, in office, school, home, internet cafe, etc you can have different profiles for each of them. The profile file will contain all the settings you made while running. So, your settings, history, wand passwords, etc are packed into a single file, then they are overwritten and deleted on the host machine (so you leave no trace). When you run Opera Portable on another machine, your settings will be applied again. This is suitable for usage in USB/flash disks and other writable media, or even on your harddisk!
- Opera Portable One-Use 9.52 (English, other languages see below)
All settings, history, cache etc are completely destroyed after running. This is suitable if you run Opera Portable from LAN shares, CD/DVD, or other non-writable media.
It is recommended that you backup the ophome file in case of data corruption. You should use 7z or zip or rar or any compressor to backup it since it is highly compressible :D
Available Languages
Opera Portable Builder
Since the 9.20 release, I restructured the arrangements of files, and made it possible for you to build Opera Portable by yourself! Building Opera Portable by yourself enables these functionalities:
- Using languages not available here (more than 30 languages can be built)
- Additional plugins as needed (the official version above only includes Flash Player)
- Your favorite widgets, bookmarks, RSS feeds, even toolbar settings etc available as defaults
- Edit the NSIS script to suit your needs
Etc. And so on. However, I would like to ask you to donate 10 USD (see the Donate section). The Builder is very easy to use, it is automated, by default you can select the language to be built and choice between Personal or One-Use version. Modify the data directories and you can add your own content, plug-ins, themes, and so on.
Where and When to Use Opera Portable
- When you are in a library / internet cafe / lab / other public places, Opera is usually not installed, and you are forced to bear with IE or Firefox that is indeed slower than Opera.
- When you want to surf 'secret' websites but you afraid that your traces remains, use Opera Portable, because when you close Opera Portable, all data will be overwritten and erased (not just erased)!
- When you use your own computer but IE is severely infected by worms, viruses, spyware, horses, rats, rabbits, dragonflies, etc. And you are afraid! And Opera comes...
- When you want to have Opera anywhere you go, either on a USB flash disk or a CD (because Opera Portable doesn't require the medium to be writable!)
- When you promote Opera to your friends, before installing it, it's better if you can show it first, right?
All intellectual property rights such as but not limited to patents, trademarks, copyrights or trade secret rights related to the Software are the property of and remains vested in Opera Software ASA/its suppliers.
Changes (click here for full list)
9.52
- Flash Player updated to 9.0.124.0 (thanks to Manish)
- Site icons are now stored, so you will see bookmark and pagebar icons (thanks to Markus, Dagenham, E2-B2, jey)
9.51 beta
- (no changes, just version update)
9.27
- (no changes, just version update)
9.26
- Updated Flash Player plug-in to 9.0.115.0 that supports Adobe AIR installation
9.25
- (no changes, just version update)
9.24 v2
- Added manifest resource onto the exe file so that it can run without requesting administrator previledges
9.24
- (no changes, just version update)
9.23
- (no changes, just version update)
9.22
- Flash player updated to 9.0.47
- Voice extension files are now saved to the ophome file (no need to modify manually)
9.21
- (no changes, just version update)
9.20
- Widgets are now saved correctly
- Flash Player updated to 9.0.45
- Nothing remains in the registry
- Opera Portable Builder is available (currently limited)
9.10
- Added Danish and Simplified Chinese per request
- Flash Player 9 included
- Press Esc in the startup dialog to cancel running
- Non-english language files compressed too
9.02 v2
- Fixed a bug where a dropdown is not shown in customize dialog
9.02
- Nothing. Just changed to Opera 9.02
9.01 v2
- Temporary files are extracted to a fixed location: %tmp%\hebat901
- Multiple languages are available
9.01
- Flash Player 8 plugin is included (very frequently used)
- Modified language file and INI files to be smaller
9.00
- Now it doesn't leave an empty directory after running.
- (for Personal version) Mail and RSS is now saved. Please refrain from keeping a lot of mails since it will take longer time to repack.
- Start page modified
Old versions
How I Made It
First install Opera to a new directory. Don't select individual profile for each user. Run the newly installed Opera twice, because on the second run Opera will ask you if you want to make it default browser. Answer no. Turn on mouse gestures, disable proxy if it enabled by default, set the start page, and close it again. Open operadef.ini and opera6.ini, if there is any references to directory other than installation directory, delete it. Delete uninst and mail directories, create empty download folder. Remove all files under profile directory except the opera6.ini file. Pack with NSIS, finished! The old NSIS script is here. Please do not re-distribute it and claim as your own, if you have improvements please tell me below and I will try to use it.
Feedback
How do you think about this program? Do you have any suggestion for improvement? Can you tell me how to further reduce the file size (e.g. deleting unnecessary files?) Do you have any interesting experience in using Opera Portable? Please discuss it and tell us below!
Written by: yuku
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| hmm.. i think it can be reduced further.. i look into it
first.. :D
arri [id], 13 Dec 2005, 11:08 reply
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| why is the download link only for 3 days?
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| Very nice
The only thing missing is bookmark (deleted
everytime you close the program). And maybe a way to keep
opera.ini file saved. Sometimes I edited the ini to get rid
of ads.
Can't complaint though, you did a superb job
ice-pack [id], 7 Jan 2006, 10:03 reply
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| Hey any chance of sharign the nsis script file
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| I would also like to see the NSIS script as well. Thanks.
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| Wow 750 visitors. Congratz
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| Very nice... Take a look at
this.
http://www.ghostzilla.com/
(portable browser,
perhaps "friend" of firefox, lol =P)
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| Awesome tool!! I posted this up on digg.com -- it should
give this some more publicity!
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| Hello small question. How made your to change the Home
Page.
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| Great idea but the link doesn't work to grab the script. :/
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| Very nice idea!
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| Is it possible that opera portable can crash? And if so will
the NSIS script still run to cover up all data tracks?
Havent had such a problem so far, but just asking, because
if it crashes then I guess the browser tracks data will
still be accessible right? That was a problem in opera USB I
think, is it so here also? Thanks.
The Reaper [us], 26 Mar 2006, 0:16 reply
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| Will my employer be able to check my usage?
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| Just loaded this onto my USB stick, and its working great!
One question - I need to spoof a website, which I would
normally do by adding a record to the ua.ini file. Can this
be done with Opera Portable? The values I need don't
correspond to the options under Quick Preferences. Thanks.
Kevin [us], 14 Apr 2006, 17:20 reply
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| Great job! Question - I set up an email account, but the
next time I open up Opera its gone. Any way to save the mail
accounts setup?
K-mac [us], 20 Apr 2006, 20:47 reply
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| Your website has been mentioned in Webuser (a UK
Internet)
Great! Thanks
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| Real nice job, I have different versions of Opera portable
and I have to say this is the fastest one and also smaller,
I don't see any private information left behind in the host
computer.
Will you do a new version with Opera 9 ,we
will really like to see that.
Thanks and keep up the good
work.
Frank M.
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| Thanks for the upgrade to v1.0
I mentioned your page at
http://portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=195
Th
e profile feature is really useful, thanks a lot.
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| Nice Idea and implementation.
It leaves an empty folder
like this
behind:
C:\temp\hebat854-29784063549733104
I
managed to use custom Toolbar, menu and skin.
Is it
possible to include mail also?
If yes, How can i do
this.
I didn't manage to create a package with your NSIS
file.
Thank you for this great lauchning
approach.
I have a suggestion to reduce
size:
instead of zip.dll try 7-zip if possible. It has a
much higher compression ration.
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| Hey, its wonderful... I only have one request... cant you
change the icon on opera ( An if possible a skin ) that
matches internet explorer ??? My employeer dont permit the
usage of other browsers besides IE, and I dont really like
it... I`ve changed once the icon, but I lack the knowledge
to do the rest... If you want I can send you the modified
.exe with IE icon... Thanks in advance
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| Very nice. I love it so much. It's small, clean and works
very well. But mail and feed will be lost if restart it.
Hope to see its next version.
RedSpider [ca], 19 May 2006, 5:53 reply
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| I've been using operaUSB but even if you disable the cache,
history & all it still wants to write to the thumbdrive
every second (which ends up wearing it out in no time). The
only thing I miss from O-portable is the email (&feeds)
being saved but I know you're working on that.
I like
opera's intuitive interface & the idea that I can put it on
a USBdisk & have all my bookmarks & emails with me. I don't
care as much about saving/storing history & cache.
Is
there a way to have it automatically clean up the temporary
directories it creates? It cleans them, but the empty dir
is left after.
Oh, you may want to look at "UPX" for
compressing EXEs & DLLs.
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| Your portable Opera is fantastic! You are very smart.
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| good article ...
banyak membantu saya .. tapi ada satu
hal lagi .. ada gak downloader yg portable kayak DAP,Get
Right, atau Mass Downloader.
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| Great post! Now I am trying to make portable Opera for it's
latest 9 beta 2. But the NSIS failed to compile. It ends up
at the line 144 and 156. The folder doesn't exist on my PC.
Can I make it without studying in detail about the tool
NSIS?
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| Hey,
great work.
I hope you're working on an update
and release it soon :D
Can't wait. It's hardly possible
to wait ;-)
best regards,
iNsuRRecTiON
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| Great idea.It works perfectly except for mail and feeds.But
that's OK with me because I'm low on space on my Flash
Drive. Anyway you should try compressing all the executable
files with UPX Tool before you pack them.
Hope you
continue when Opera 9 is released.
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| I got here as soon as I heard about 9.0 being released... to
tell you the truth I wasnt expecting you to have already
upgraded. I havent tried out your new version but judging
from the past 2 versions I tried, I doubt there could
possibly be anything wrong.
YOU ROCK!
Thanks a whole
lot.
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| Downloaded 9.0
Good job.
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| Good tool, though I have a question: if I were to reboot
Windows and I forgot to close Opera properly, would the tool
still clean out the Temp folder?
The reason I'm asking
this is that I used Opera USB on school computers, and
there's a tendency I can accidentally leave behind my
profile data on that computer.
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| Great tool, exactly what I was looking for. I am uneasy
that it completely empties the Temp folder however, instead
of just the files it creates. The first time I ran it, it
cleaned out several GB of files I had 'temporarily' stored
there (on a work computer) to keep them from being easily
noticed. Fortunately I had other copies of all of them, but
it was still an unpleasant surprise. Can you not make it a
bit more selective in what it deletes?
WD [us], 22 Jun 2006, 10:38 reply
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| Awesome! Seems like a huge improvement; you got the mail &
RSS feeds working AND you still managed to keep the size
down. WOW!
How do the widgets work since it's portable?
Does it pack them into the profile, or do they get erased
when it cleans up?
vengarato [us], 23 Jun 2006, 16:53 reply
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| Are you going to release a portable opera based on opera 9.0
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| Is more useful if you simply use Opera@usb version that work
as Opera9 without any installation and there will be soon
Opera9final.
www.opera-usb.com
Ciao, Igor
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| Hi, very interesting.
Say I want to use this soft at
work. is there any way I can put my Opera 8.54 password and
cookies in a floppy from home and download an "import/copy"
them into Opera portable?.
Thanks
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| How can i use italian language file in
opera-portable-personal-9.00? I tried to change the language
directory, but when the program start the language file is
always english.lng
deep [it], 26 Jun 2006, 14:21 reply
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| how to install plugin to Portable Opera??
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| IMPORTANT TIP on shrinking the "default.ophome" file size!!!
--- I found that my ophome file was taking up about
1700k even when I trimmed down my emails to the bare
essentials. Two things I found that made a huge difference
(my ophome is now 695k) were #1: the "cache4" folder inside
the "profile" folder. And #2: the "lexicon" folder in the
"mail" folder. They are both really unnecessary for
operation. --- The lexicon data is only for speeding up
searches thru your emails. If you could have opera portable
ignore these two folders when it compresses/stores the
ophome file, you'd see a great decrease in the ophome file
size.
vengarato [us], 28 Jun 2006, 22:04 reply
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| Wow it is really nice, but I notice that flash is not in it
that is why flash sites cannot be viewed. But overall,
really good! Thanks.
Silver [us], 28 Jun 2006, 23:52 reply
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| Q: is there any way I can put my Opera 8.54 password and
cookies ... "import/copy" them into Opera portable? ---
A: Start O-Portable, note the address in the start page,
this is where it stores the files when it's running. Copy
your O-8.54 files there (*.adr, *.dat, *.ini) into the
profile directory.
vengarato [us], 29 Jun 2006, 14:06 reply
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| Widgets will not open
Unwanted Zoom
IRVINGMEYERSON [us], 29 Jun 2006, 22:57 reply
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| good job ! but with www.Opera-usb.com you have more
possibilities for personal settings; and it will start
faster
Alfred Gusi [at], 30 Jun 2006, 6:23 reply
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| Good job, man !
One request though : I have a problem
with my firewall, because opera.exe is each time stored in a
different folder, requiring each time a new authentification
and authorization. Any idea on how to solve this ?
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| I copied all the files from my plugins folder (C:\Program
Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\) to the portable folder on
temp\hebat***\Program\Plugins and the Flash sites work,
still.. after closing and reopening it, it's gone.. is there
a way of storing plugins together with other ini options?
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| Excellent work, I like it an I will use it for sure :), just
one thing I use Kaspersky Anti-hacker and its asking me over
and over if I want to allow it to surf in the web and when I
clcik "Allow all the activity from internet" it says that I
can't do that, but If I click on the button "Allow once" it
works but ask me a lot of time.
eViL bAz [mx], 3 Jul 2006, 20:28 reply
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| A great program.
Would be even greater if it was possible
to use more languages, like Frisian and dutch.
I tryed
the nsis script but it didn't work oké got an error.
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| works good ....but o can not keep it from leaving temp files
on the host......what am i doing wrong?
thanks for any
help..
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| Im currently working on a version of Opera to build a
multiplatform CD to launch interactive applications composed
of a mix of HTML and Flash.
Passing by, I very
appreciated your work.
Wy not reactivate your dowloads
for Opera 8.54 because it is compatible with Win98 en WinME
?
Cheers.
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 | It's now activated, please enjoy it!
yuku [sg], 4 Aug 2006, 11:12 reply
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