+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2010 Umm I got a little problem.. Opera somehow got installed on my Mac without me knowing... how the hell did that happen? I'm the only user of this mac and the last 3 things installed were (in this very order) Mac OS X 10.6.3 Combo Update, Messenger:Mac 8 Beta and Google Chrome... And it's not showing up under System Profiler as being installed :s I found this out when I went to open a torrent in uTorrent... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2010 Do you have the Adobe Creative Suite installed? Opera comes with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Have you installed anything Adobe recently? Photoshop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2010 Author Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2010 I have CS4 installed... but ti was installed ages before utorrent and opera never launched before for torrents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzyyfool Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Seems the file association for .torrent files has defaulted to Opera. Just change back to uTorrent and your good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2010 Author Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2010 Yes but my question is where is Opera.app hiding? as I have no need to have it on my system (I already have 3 other browsers...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzyyfool Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Yes but my question is where is Opera.app hiding? as I have no need to have it on my system (I already have 3 other browsers...) Opera resides in the Adobe Bridge app bundle. Navigate to "Adobe Bridge CS4.app > Show Package Contents > Contents > MacOS" I believe you can safely delete "Opera" from within the app bundle and Bridge still works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njn007 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Opera is on every Mac. You just don't know it until you try what you tried. It's not in your Applications folder. It's hidden! Don't remove it either. It's not easy to find and it's better off left on it. No, I'm not kidding. It's on every single Mac made! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PL_ Veteran Posted April 12, 2010 Veteran Share Posted April 12, 2010 No, I'm not kidding. It's on every single Mac made! Source? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrCheese Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Do you have the Adobe Creative Suite installed? Opera comes with it. Seriously :o :wacko: The more and more I deal with CS4 at work, the more I realise that Adobe are a cowboy outfit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazzyyfool Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Opera is on every Mac. You just don't know it until you try what you tried. It's not in your Applications folder. It's hidden! Don't remove it either. It's not easy to find and it's better off left on it. No, I'm not kidding. It's on every single Mac made! Care to explain yourself? Opera does NOT come installed by default on new Macs. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njn007 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Source? You're gonna have to trust me on this one. I got into it from a torrent (as our original poster did). I did not have CS4 installed at the time. Keep in mind this is a new iMac from late '09. I know this was before CS4 was installed because I haven't had CS4 for that long (a month or two). I know that Adobe CS can install it onto your system. I absolutely know that CS4 was not on my Mac at the time that Opera opened. I'll dig up some info if I can find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njn007 Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Care to explain yourself? Opera does NOT come installed by default on new Macs. Period. As I just explained to "Mike Brown", I know I didn't have CS4 on my Mac when Opera opened (from a torrent link in Safari). I've not had my Mac that long (almost 4 months). I've had CS4 for even shorter (1 maybe 2 months). If I am correct, I was searching for CS4 when I opened a torrent link. Once Opera opened I freaked out and just quit everything. BTW my friend ended up giving me a copy of CS4 a few weeks later. The only think Adobe-related on my Mac at the time was Acrobat.com and Reader 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 What a load of nonsense. The only way Opera will find its way on your Mac is by either installing Adobe CS4 or to download it yourself. You can examine the Mac OS X Install DVD with an application like Pacifist (which will reveal everything), no Opera is there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted April 15, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 15, 2010 It makes no sense for Opera to be there anyway. No sense at all. That's why it's not bundled. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreKe Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Do you have the Adobe Creative Suite installed? Opera comes with it. No, it uses WebKit now. And I don't think it ever came with Opera. Only Presto. Opera is on every Mac. No it isn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVEЯiCK ☭ Posted April 19, 2010 Share Posted April 19, 2010 Maybe you have paranormal activities in your house. They're attracted to Macs only, because they're wonderful --- joke. Well I didn't know that Opera comes with Adobe CS4. Anyway, if that's not the case maybe someone else accessed your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Matthew S. Subscriber² Posted April 22, 2010 Author Subscriber² Share Posted April 22, 2010 That would be impossible :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 No, it uses WebKit now. And I don't think it ever came with Opera. Only Presto. Adobe CS3 and CS4 come with Opera. It's located inside Bridge's package contents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Adobe CS3 and CS4 come with Opera. It's located inside Bridge's package contents. +1 and NO it doesn't come with OSX lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted April 23, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 23, 2010 Wowzers, you're right. Wonder what that's for! Sneaky. :shiftyninja: *reports adobe to stopbadware* xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PreKe Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Only the Opera engine was distributed with Adobe CS, AFAIK. Not the full browser. And it certainly didn't set itself as the default browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jamesyfx Subscriber² Posted April 23, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted April 23, 2010 I just pulled it out and extracted it. It's definitely a regular Opera.app. I've opened it and everything. Opera 9.27. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Neo Posted April 23, 2010 Share Posted April 23, 2010 Only the Opera engine was distributed with Adobe CS, AFAIK. Not the full browser. And it certainly didn't set itself as the default browser. Being stubborn much? Again, the FULL Opera browser is located inside Bridge CS4's package contents: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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