Comments on: Opera Mini turns one year old; 10 million active users; Birthday party tomorrow

By: David

David — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:48:20 +0000

I use Opera Mini on a Blackberry 7250 from Verizon Wireless. I like Opera Mini so much more than the installed browser that came with my Blackberry. There is one feature that I have on the Blackberry browser but don’t see in Opera Mini. With the Blackberry browser, I can click to bring up the menu and then click ‘hide’ to make the browser go into the background so I can use another application. Opera Mini does not seem to have a hide feature. The only way I can hide the application is to quit out of it which I prefer not to do. Is this feature already there and I don’t see it? If not, are there plans to add it?

I also have a fantasy feature that I would love to see. Is there any possibility of adding tabbed browsing to Opera Mini? Those two features would make Opera Mini the perfect browser for me on the Blackberry.

By: sewdough

sewdough — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:46:05 +0000

“2,000,000,000th mobile phone user worldwide was connected over the first weekend in June 2006 and new users are signing up at the rate of 1000 per minute, says the GSM Association.”

According to:
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P6741

By: Opera_Mini

Opera_Mini — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:41:53 +0000

I use Opera Mini to keep up in Google Reader mostly every day, it’s great!

By: kajtTV@yahoo.com

kajtTV@yahoo.com — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:38:17 +0000

anybody know how many users worldwide use mobile phone to browse web? not only trough opera

By: BAMAToNE

BAMAToNE — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:47 +0000

Answering my own questions: There is a 30 day trial (not 10). Also, you cannot run the free trial again even after uninstalling the program and reinstalling it.

By: BAMAToNE

BAMAToNE — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:50:19 +0000

I would love it if I could increase the font size in Opera Mini. I’m not sure if Opera Mini displays text as small as on mine by default on everyone’s, or if it’s just an issue with my phone, or what. But it’s kind of annoying. I think I read that Opera Mobile can increase font size, but the version that is available for my phone (T-Mobile SDA) is slightly out of date.

If I’ve already run the 10 day trial or whatever it is and removed the program, can I install it again and get another free trial? Hmm… worth a shot.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:14:09 +0000

kftgr, it seems like I gotta update it every month — but that’s a good thing.

By: Mazam

Mazam — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:50:44 +0000

I used om almost everyday. And i’m very proud of it.

By: kftgr

kftgr — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:33:55 +0000

“About the Opera browser
…more than 9 million Opera Mini users…”

Time to update that description. Congrats!

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:42:37 +0000

Daniel-

Well, maybe it’s because I missed the “settings” menu…

Menu->Tools->Settings->Font Size: Small

(I was applying my personal prefs to your screenshot of Mini)

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:57:26 +0000

Eddie, not sure what you mean by that.

By: Ramunas

Ramunas — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:38:50 +0000

Digg this: http://digg.com/software/Opera_Mini_turns_one_year_old_10_million_active_users

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:57:04 +0000

Regarding your image:

1)Menu->Tools->Font Size: Small
2) * *

ahhhhh that’s much better.