Comments on: Opera Mini 4 beta released; includes desktop-like browsing capabilities

By: Mohammad

Mohammad — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:13:14 +0000

Great great work by the team. Hats off to them all. Unbelievable browsing experience on a handset. I’ve got a suggestion, and an issue:

1. As suggested by wupperbayer, multiple levels of zoom would be terrific. In order to have it work well with SSR would be a challenge though.

2. Mini 4 crashes after a minute or so on my O2 XDA Mini S, running WM6. Sometimes, the program hangs indefinitely, sometimes the phone simply freezes, permanently (atleast until a soft-reset). Since this is still beta, I’m still hoping the final version would be more stable on my phone, because I simply love this browser.

By: Elektron

Elektron — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:07:17 +0000

I really appreciate the effort, guys. Now I’m using opera’s version 3.1 and it’s great! A few things, though. Is it possible to download the Opera mini 4 beta to my computer? I have the cheapest plan and I have to pay a lot for downloads from my phone. That is also why I love Opera’s option of not downloading pictures as it saves me lots of money. As a huge nerd, I only need my phone to quickly look something up on wikipedia and impress my classmates. Also, is it at all possible to get rid of the individual Yahoo! search bar (I also despise Microsoft and their non-open-source ness) ? Or, if not, add a Google search engine to the list of search engines? All help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Elektron

By: VS

VS — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:38:32 +0000

Looks great.
But how to make zoom option works. It is something need to do during the page design or what?. Becuase i could not see any option to zoom in or zoom out

By: joan

joan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:13:23 +0000

hi i just want to know if theres an option to “save target as” on opera mini..im currently using version 3.1 and i dont see one…its just that some files need that option when downloading…tnx hope u can help me..

By: ocan

ocan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:31:54 +0000

i down loaded mini 4 betta but it did not work .what can i do

By: Md Hasli

Md Hasli — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:27:13 +0000

I find the Opera Mini 4 beta a great browser, especially the new page overview feature. But I can’t help feeling that Apple iPhone’s Safari would be great too, thanks to the phone’s larger screen, and the freedom and ease of using one’s finger as a mouse.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:12:00 +0000

brian, the transit page uses tables, which wasn’t implemented yet with Opera Mini 3. The new beta added lots of support for HTML and CSS, including HTML tables.

Regarding the themes, many features and functionality that are available in Opera Mini 3 were not yet implemented in the new beta yet. Examples include: RSS feed reader, content folding, themes, etc.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:01:02 +0000

This browser is amazing. I have already found a page that was impossible for me to view and now I can. I live in Seattle and use the public transportation which hosts it’s schedules online at transit.metrokc.gov and on ver. 3.1 the timetable would be all scrambled, but now with ver.4, it is easy to view. Great Job guys!! PS, I dont know why you got rid of the themes, I loved my black borders. Oh and if you guys could make it so you can move your start page bookmarks by priority, that would be awesome.

By: PhakE**

PhakE** — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:13:41 +0000

@Nÿco

What about Deepfish?
http://operawatch.com/news/2007/03/microsoft-entering-the-mobile-browsing-market-too.html

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:13:47 +0000

Very nice beta. It works quite nicely on my k700i

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:47:20 +0000

Simply Beautiful.

By: wupperbayer

wupperbayer — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:43:11 +0000

Hmm, great idea. I think the best surfing on small displays (or displays with low resolutions, like a TV) is a combination of SSR and this “intelligent zoom” as Opera Mini is doing now. You zoom into a part of a web page and SSR renders it so that I don’t need to scroll horizontally. It would be nice then to have different zooms to make text bigger or smaller. I wish Opera/Wii could do something like that, because when I surf to forums with Opera/Wii, the text is way too small to be readable.

By: YtseJam

YtseJam — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:12:48 +0000

Oh wow. BiDi support? Well, it’s damn buggy.
But this is great news indeed - will report issues in the Opera Mini forums.

By: Nÿco

Nÿco — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:09:46 +0000

Hey… seems like a second battle of the web is beginning here, in the land of sub-laptop-sized devices, with different actors:
* Opera Mini
* Safari and WebKit
* Minimo (still waiting for it)

And still no IE yet, since they are busy working on fixing everything they have late in IE7 for… only Windows…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_wars

By: Philry4n

Philry4n — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:02:29 +0000

My 3230 failed to launch the app *cries*