How to disable automatic updates in Opera?

• The help page you linked is for old Opera 12.16 (Presto engine). They are outdated for Opera 15+

• Currently there is no built-in preference to disable Auto Update in Opera 15+

• Some command line switch from Chome work in Opera too since they both use on the same engine

  ..\Opera\Launcher.exe --check-for-update-interval=0
  

  After a short test I would say this one doesn't work

But

• You can delete (or rename) opera_autoupdate.exe which is used to check for newer versions

  ...\Opera\26.0.1655.0\opera_autoupdate.exe
  

  After this, Opera displays an error which you won't see unless you open opera:\\about

  

You can either use the commandline switch --disable-update in the shortcut you use to start opera

or if you want to stop Opera autoupdating no matter how you start it you can add an environment variable called OPERA_AUTOUPDATE_DISABLED (value doesn't matter).

Windows

For the latest Windows version of Opera updates are configured via the Windows Task Scheduler.

Click Start, type Task Scheduler, locate the corresponding item for Opera Autoupdater and configure as needed.

You can also use Autoruns — a Microsoft freebie which lets you quickly see all the scheduled items, as well as everything that starts on boot.

MacOS

To disable updates for MacOS type this in the terminal:

defaults write com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate true

To see if the disable are currently disabled use:

defaults read com.operasoftware.Opera OPDisableAutoUpdate