Opera have announced a new beta version of Opera Mobile for S60 3rd Edition and S60 5th Edition devices. Version 10.1 boasts a new rendering engine (Presto), new graphics library (Vega), and new Javascript engine (Carakan), all of which are also utilised in Opera's desktop browser. The end result is a significant boost in overall performance. Also new is geolocation support, which allows websites to serve up location specific content. The beta can be downloaded from the Opera website.
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to avoid confusion, try m.opera.com/next when ready to dl. other links served up previous version.
No new settings that I can see, but performance does "feel" that bit more stable and faster.
Can't see the difference in kinetic scrolling that was mentioned tho?
Opera has a very bad habit of freezing for no apparent reason on my 5800, even when loading a very small page (no one else seems to have that issue?), only time will tell if the new engines etc have rectified that.
Neil
Neil, mine did the same. I wiped out Opera mobile 😊
I've found it much much faster than the current Opera mobile, and not really much hungrier with RAM usage, also can set it as default browser on N97, it doesn't work on all apps, but does open email attachments 😊 Well worth a try !!
This is so much better. The previous versions were slow and kept freezing on my innov8. This one's really fast and no more freezes.
It's a definite improvement on the the previous Opera Mobile browser on the N97 "classic", and that was quite reasonable already. I managed to load the desktop version of a couple of rather large, media-laden tech blog sites (who shall remain nameless out of respect for this website 😊) (1) without crashing the browser, which *never* happened before (both on the previous Opera and on the built-in browser) and (2) in quite reasonable time over 3G, almost as fast as Opera Mini. It's quite fast and scrolls quite nicely, and now when it does run out of memory (like loading one of the aforementioned sites as a second tab) it gives you a warning rather than just crashing and exiting. Great job Opera! It actually makes browsing the web on the N97 fun again.
Does the replace the existing version or exist in parallel? Also, do the bookmarks get imported or you have recreate them since this is beta?
Hi,
I installed it and noticed that it still keep the 10.0 version besides the 10.1 version. Also it does not import the bookmarks.
malerocks wrote:Does the replace the existing version or exist in parallel? Also, do the bookmarks get imported or you have recreate them since this is beta?
cip wrote:Hi,
I installed it and noticed that it still keep the 10.0 version besides the 10.1 version. Also it does not import the bookmarks.
If you want to bring your bookmarks across into the beta version, you need to have an Opera account and login to the Opera Link function - this will synchronise your bookmarks across any install of Opera on mobile or desktop logged into the same function.
I found these shortcuts on the E90 for Opera Mobile 10.1 beta :
Keys :
1 = Space : select text
2 : Page left
4 : Page down
6 : Page up
8 : Page right
# : The usual 11 shortcuts
* : like in the Opera Mobile 10.0 : doesn't work on E90
On E90 to select * = Shift + 8 . This might be the problem
😊 Regards jApi NL
if you use spb shell on your n97 it will not work fine because of ram errors!
if you use ist without spb shell its really better!
greets chris
Does this version of Opera now support predictive text input? e.g. when entering URLs, in html forms etc. The earlier beta version did not.
This works well, but nothing will run whilst this program is running. It's memory print is massive. All my programs had shutdown to make this run.
If this happens, the programs that shutdown to make more memory should be started back up when the program closes.
:frown:
I checqued both , O. Mob. 10.0 and O. Mob. 10.1 beta . Starting up the browsers 14.2 MB of RAM are used equally .
😊 Regards jApi NL
Which phone did you run the SunSpider benchmark on? I was unable to complete a run of it on my N97 Mini because it kept running out of memory. On Opera 10.0 it ran to completion (but took twice as long as the time in your screenshot, so either 10.1 is a lot faster or you ran it on a faster phone).
There is a comment in the release notes that says "Somewhat higher memory usage, especially on JavaScript intensive sites", so hopefully this is something that will be fixed at some point. Until then I've found 10.1 unusable on some sites, e.g. the BBC site, as it always runs out of memory. Of course Nokia must carry some responsibility for the woefully inadequate amount of RAM in their phones.
Frobisher wrote:Which phone did you run the SunSpider benchmark on? I was unable to complete a run of it on my N97 Mini because it kept running out of memory. On Opera 10.0 it ran to completion (but took twice as long as the time in your screenshot, so either 10.1 is a lot faster or you ran it on a faster phone).There is a comment in the release notes that says "Somewhat higher memory usage, especially on JavaScript intensive sites", so hopefully this is something that will be fixed at some point. Until then I've found 10.1 unusable on some sites, e.g. the BBC site, as it always runs out of memory. Of course Nokia must carry some responsibility for the woefully inadequate amount of RAM in their phones.
I ran the Sun Spider test with Rafe's 5530.
re. The bookmarks issue- ive signed into Opera link in an attempt to share bookmarks between 10.0 and 10.1. Whats happened tho is that bookmarks from my desktop Opera now appear on 10.1. Is there any way to transfer between mobile browsers and ignoee the desk top? Thanks in advance!