Opera on a USB stick

September 27, 2005 · by Haavard

Found this on digg.com the other day:

If you've ever wanted to carry Opera around on your USB stick, this site seems to make it easier for you.

Check it out: Opera-USB.com

Any reports from people who have tried it?

Readers' comments 7

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Rapier27. September 2005, 20:15:03
I have heard of the program but never tried it...
Here is a website that tell you how to make a portable opera version
http://chooseopera.com/CDProject/portable.html
And here is another portable opera program but i dont understand the language...
http://fubus.narod.ru/moper.html

it would be great to have an official portable version of opera though.. as i have doubts that if those programs would be able to successfully change all the paths in the ini's...
Dionaea28. September 2005, 14:32:25
Not tried that program. What I have tried though, is to just install Opera as normal, on a USB stick. Worked just fine for me.
DJ SkaM28. September 2005, 19:53:30
This assumes that the other computer assigns the same drive letter for it's external USB peripherals.
thesquire3. October 2005, 20:42:26
To get rid of that driveletter problem I wrote a program, available on Sourceforge at http://appstarter.sf.net.

I have been using Opera on my USB stick for about a year now
TheChode21. October 2005, 06:56:30
I personally use These instructions, plus a couple of my own.

Opera's auto-session keeps accessing a USB drive, which stresses it and shortens it's life-span. Disabling the auto-session is next-to-impossible. The trick I use is deleting the sessions folder from the Opera install, and replacing it with a blank file of the same name.
Nazo23. October 2005, 16:29:19
Personally, instead of using this program, I just used these instructions to change the cache folder:
http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=340
And I set it to %temp% which should be safe on just about any Windows computer.

And thesquire, I really like your program, but, it needs the ability to change the driveletter in multiple files. Opera alone serves as an example of a program with many configuration files which have drive letters in them. Also, it'd be nice if it showed up in the taskbar like normal applications.
PaiTrakt9. December 2005, 18:42:15
I use this one at my school where I'm not allowed to install any programs. I have some server space at the school network, so I just run it from there. Takes some time to start it though, but I rather wait a minute to browse with Opera instead of IE infested with adware.