All Opera Mobile/Mini versions: Official thread

[cocoska]

try to use facebook native client...

 

[venitex]

great~~

if opera WP7 version come out

i will lough when i was sleeping

 

[CostasChem]

I used to use opera all the time on my N95 and N97...but on the htc i am not really happy with it, at least not yet...btw, i use it on my laptop as well and it rocks.

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[ausduckz]

I love Opera Mini. Thanks for providing these updates

 

[tbob18]

I've been using Opera Mobile 11 since it was released. It pretty much demolishes all the competition in both page loading speed and UI speed (2128ms in Sunspider vs 3849ms in Dolphin Mini using the Epic at 1.5ghz).

If you go to an article on Boston's The Big Picture you will see every other browser choke, but Opera seems to render it perfectly with minimal lag and keeps the full resolution images. The stock browser or any other browser it will crash sometimes, if it does not crash then it will scroll very slowly the first time. (example).

Another problem with other browsers, they don't render full size high-res images (~3mp+).
Here is an example, if you zoom to 100% you can easily read what the text underneath the window of the top plane says using Opera Mobile or a desktop browser. Now if you open that image with Boat, Dolphin, xScope, or the default browser you will find it much harder to read.

I believe Opera Mobile is the only browser on Android to utilize GPU acceleration, which probably has a lot to do with the smoothness.

The biggest problem I have with Opera Mobile is the start up time.. I deleted most of my bookmarks and it takes about 1 second to open (down from about 3 seconds), which is still quite a bit longer than the stock browser.

Another issue, sometimes it will say it the page load is complete, yet you can still see things loading on the page (for example, the Boston page above).. Even so, the page will still load nearly as fast as other browsers, that Boston page fully loaded in about 45 seconds in Opera Mobile and 40 seconds in Dolphin Mini (caches cleared on both).. It would be nice to know that the page is still loading.

 

[munguse]

Different facebook mobile versions

Why does stock browser and opera mobile 11.10 have different facebook mobile versions? Same for gmail.

Facebook on:
stock browserView attachment 718708opera mobileView attachment 718707

Gmail on:
stock browser opera mobileView attachment 718723

Prefer Opera Mobile to any other browser because of it's speed and ease of use but it's annoying that it can't show the newer mobile sites that look cleaner. Am I making sense

 

[past_pluto]

It probably has to do with the single column view and how opera makes any page a mobile page.

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[tbob18]

Why does stock browser and opera mobile 11.10 have different facebook mobile versions? Same for gmail.

Facebook on:
stock browserView attachment 718708opera mobileView attachment 718707

Gmail on:
stock browserView attachment 718724opera mobileView attachment 718723

Prefer Opera Mobile to any other browser because of it's speed and ease of use but it's annoying that it can't show the newer mobile sites that look cleaner. Am I making sense

It has to do with web developers not supporting Opera on mobile devices.

You can get around this by changing the user agent string in opera:config to an android/iphone user agent string, but things will not work 100% because some of the CSS is only supported by Webkit (Opera supports a good deal of the HTML5 spec, but needs Opera specific CSS to work correctly).

 

[munguse]

It has to do with web developers not supporting Opera on mobile devices.

You can get around this by changing the user agent string in opera:config to an android/iphone user agent string, but things will not work 100% because some of the CSS is only supported by Webkit (Opera supports a good deal of the HTML5 spec, but needs Opera specific CSS to work correctly).

Thanks, found a fix here

Works with facebook but not google. Oh well

 

[watch_mania]

Been using Opera Mobile 11.1 on Streak with stock 2.2.2 ROM. Phone skin automatically selected, which is fine. However, the buttons and overall widgets on Opera Mobile is enormously huge. Is there a way to override dpi settings for this? There doesn't seems to be reply on Opera Mobile forum

 

[lvachala]

slower

Opera looks slower these days, but still the best.

 

[edt.lime]

Opera looks slower these days, but still the best.

hm dunno i dont have problem with it

 

[Baladya]

What pisses me off about Opera Mobile is that sometimes when i change screens and go back to Opera it has to restart and the pages to reload -.-' Also sometimes doesn't log me to websites even tho I have my password saved and checked 'log me in automatically'

 

[Maddmatt]

It's amazing how much better the performance is in Opera compared to the standard browser on the Galaxy S.

There is a major issue with downloading files though. Opera cannot reliably download files in the background as they get cancelled if Android decides to close it to free up RAM.
Could Opera be updated in future to pass downloads to Android's built-in download manager?
I don't see the point in Opera managing downloads itself.

Would be nice if Opera could start up faster too. Android stock browser starts up instantly, although it has the advantage of being built-in and having virtually no custom interface so there is less to load.

 

[orb3000]

I have used it since WM times and it cover my browsing needs quite well, of course as in any browser there´s room for improving

 

[0ccx]

wish they would make a version for webOS. the webOs browser..isnt the greatest

 

[tbob18]

It's amazing how much better the performance is in Opera compared to the standard browser on the Galaxy S.

There is a major issue with downloading files though. Opera cannot reliably download files in the background as they get cancelled if Android decides to close it to free up RAM.
Could Opera be updated in future to pass downloads to Android's built-in download manager?
I don't see the point in Opera managing downloads itself.

Would be nice if Opera could start up faster too. Android stock browser starts up instantly, although it has the advantage of being built-in and having virtually no custom interface so there is less to load.

I think there should be an option to keep it in the status bar, similar to Skype and other programs.. This way it will stay in ram much longer.

 

[d4n11]

I use opera on PC from 2001-2002....but on my Android opera very bed.....many errors in page view

What hardware do you have?
My experiencce of Opera is not so bad. I use Opera Mobile 11.10 on a WiFi connection (just 2~3Mbps), but I can say that it's the fastest Opera I ever see on a mobile. I've an SGS2.

An advice: Use Opera Mini in case there is no fast internet connection like GPRS/EDGE, and use Opera Mobile for better internet connection

 

[justinhj]

Use opera mini on my Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy S.

Much faster than the built in browser, but occasionally I switch back to it for pages that don't render correctly.

for example google maps and google groups mess up so badly on opera i can't read them

 

[Jacky444]

I used to run java based opera on my SE aino and i was more then happy with it.

Though i never liked the PHP based downloads dont get saved, instead you get 0kb file download.