Just curious. I tried a version in the past (3?) and didn't like it over the E70's built in browser enough to keep it but am wondering about the newest version. What's better/different about it? Anyone having any luck, good or bad, with it? Just looking for a little feedback from those who have tried it.
Anyone using Opera Mini 4??
jeremyhelling wrote:Just curious. I tried a version in the past (3?) and didn't like it over the E70's built in browser enough to keep it but am wondering about the newest version. What's better/different about it? Anyone having any luck, good or bad, with it? Just looking for a little feedback from those who have tried it.
Opera Mini 4 is a vastly improved version compared to v3. I never liked the previous version either but found version 4 fantastic on my E61 (and that's even though I usually hate Java applications). Opera have done an amazing job on this.
Don't know if it's going to be as good on the E70 as on the E61 though (I now have a E90 and it doesn't work all that well on it so it seems to vary from device to device).
On the E61, Opera Mini 4 easily beats the built-in web browser:
1) same mini-map feature but much better implemented. By default, pages are displayed in mini-map mode once they've been loaded (you can disable that in the options).
2) Unlike the built-in web browser which always places you on the top-left corner of the page forcing you to first scroll right and down before you can actually start reading the page, Opera Mini detects where the actual content of the page start and places you right there. So you can start reading the page's content straight away.
3) Page up / page down feature: the lack of this feature in the built-in web browser is one of my biggest grip with it. Trying to read long articles scrolling using the fiddly soft pointer is a complete nightmare. With opera mini 4, just press 2 and 8 to smoothly scroll one page at a time. Seems like a small detail but it makes the whole web browsing experience an awful lot more comfortable.
4) Customizable search engines. Just like in Opera for desktop. You'd need to try it to understand it but it just works.
I probably forgot quite a few other things as well.
Of course, since it's a Java application and since it doesn't render the actual pages but a pre-processed version of them, there are a few drawbacks. Opera Mini doesn't handle downloads itself but delegates that to the Services application, which is a pain (and can cause Opera to close when Services launches if there is too little RAM left). Javascript menus (and any other sort of Javascript for that matter) don't work. A few pages might have their layout altered. But overall, for day-to-day browsing, it's a fantastic application.
elp wrote:
Don't know if it's going to be as good on the E70 as on the E61 though (I now have a E90 and it doesn't work all that well on it so it seems to vary from device to device).On the E61, Opera Mini 4 easily beats the built-in web browser:
How would you compare the Mini version to the Mobile version then? Thanks.
Hm... I'd say that Opera Mini 4 is better than Opera mobile 8.65