Well great times. but its all now a china's company. i never liked the new opera. anyway the point is to move somewhere else. move to some browser that is still supported. im not gonna hold windows 7 forever, will move to linux eventually but for now alternatives are appreciated.
Portable versions requires patches at source level. In normal chromium based browsers you can put the profile in the path you like, so also on a pendrive. But that's a way different thing than a real portable version. You loose cookies, passwords and alike each time you use it in a different PC or even on the same PC using as different user.
Yes, I always block the installation with firewall. Then I delete updaters, if any (services, files and tasks). I also have policies in place against updating. I have 109 ent. installed, but I don't have the .msi. And I think the .msi was updated, so I want to check. Thank you.
As usual would be better if you talk about something you understand. In this case you failed to do that even after I patiently explained why a *REAL* portable version is not possible w/o patches You need the flag --disable-machine-id which is not there in unpatched flavours.
No, I didn't test it was just a remainder for people obsessed by the "last update" paranoia, to make them uncomfortable
I tested it, everything works fine. Of course, not installed, but unpacked with 7-zip and overwritten the files in Program Files (just like I install/update it anyway). That's FF 116 on Win7. I read somewhere that Nightly 117 doesn't work on Win7 (they use a new API call), but I didn't catch if it was only the installer or not.
Yeah, v116 is seriously the last one that supports windows 7 despite support ending on v115. Then the API change requires windows 8.1 & above for now. No idea how long windows 8.1's api will work with Firefox though but Firefox v118 still runs on windows 8.1 without issues. Though you have to use cff explorer to edit it or supposedly install it on a windows 10 machine & copy the install from windows 10 to 8.1 Also, supposedly the latest opera still works on 8.1 if you change things using cff explorer. Though what you have to change no idea.
Version 116.0 would not install for me in Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit. It displayed an alert which said Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 is not supported. I am currently using version ESR 115.1.0.