Opera Mini Blog

Opera Mini 4.2 beta for Android

By barteo. Thursday, 27. November 2008, 10:17:54

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Opera Mini 4.2 beta now available for download in Android Market.

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Opera Mini 4.2 unleashed!

By ManneS. Tuesday, 25. November 2008, 09:00:26

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We are proud to announce the release of Opera Mini 4.2. You can download it from http://mini.opera.com

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Opera Mini 4.2 beta available for testing!

By ManneS. Tuesday, 11. November 2008, 09:04:39

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We are proud to announce the beta release of Opera Mini 4.2. You can download it from http://mini.opera.com/beta

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Help us test our new US data centre

By kevin.i.orourke. Monday, 8. September 2008, 13:58:14

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As Opera Mini gains more users around the world we're trying to make sure that it works well for everyone. As part of this we're adding more of the data centres where the web pages you request are formatted, compressed and sent on their way to your phone. The first new data centre is in the USA.

To make this work we've had to make some changes in the Opera Mini server software. We need your help to test the system before we trust it with all the Opera Mini users (because that's a lot of people).

So, if you want to help you just need to download and install a special version of Opera Mini 4.1. It can be installed on your phone at the same time as the normal version. You can find it here:
http://mini.opera.com/globaltest/

Edit: The test client is called "Mini Global Test".

The main difference you'll probably notice is that page titles are all prefixed by either "[EU]" or "[US]" depending on which data centre you're currently using. You'll be allocated to one or another depending on where you are in the world and which is busier. There are some other changes and I'm curious to see if you spot them

Remember, this is a test so it might not always work correctly, we might sometimes have to make changes or fix things. You should keep your normal Opera Mini around as well.

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More SVG support, and more fun with Outlook or Friendster

By Valgrind. Monday, 2. June 2008, 16:04:40

We have upgraded the servers today. Here are the highlights from the changelog:

Added more country-specific default feeds. Will only show up on new installations.
Added onClick events to the SVG support.
Fixed compatibility with Outlook Web Access.
JAD files can now only be opened, not saved.
Improved support for radio buttons with onFocus attributes. This fixed problems with logging in to at least one site.
Added a workaround to get to the desktop version of Friendster.

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New "silent" release of Opera Mini 4.1

By ManneS. Thursday, 22. May 2008, 08:38:34

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We just released build 4.1.11355 of Opera Mini. If you don't use Palm or BlackBerry, you don't really have to update.

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Opera Mini 4.1 final

By ManneS. Tuesday, 13. May 2008, 08:00:18

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First of all we would, again, like to thank all of you who helped us beta testing Opera Mini 4.1. You provided us with a lot of good feedback, and we are now ready to give you the full 4.1 version!

There are no big differences from the beta, but there are a lot of things that have happened behind the surface:

We have fixed a lot of bugs
Minor changes to saving pages
Several adjustments to auto-complete address input and upload/download
BlackBerry devices with old firmware now get Opera Mini 4.1 without JSR-75.

We all hope you enjoy the final version of Opera Mini 4.1!

Regards,
The Opera Mini team

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4.1 lemontopic - coming next week!

By perthomas. Friday, 9. May 2008, 15:33:25

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The Mini Team is now preparing the final version of Opera Mini 4.1. Since
the beta we have done more than 150 changes to fix various issues and to
ensure that it will run as well as possible on your device. Many of these
changes are based directly on feedback from you. Among other things we
have adjusted how the "Save Page" function works and also made it possible
for BlackBerry users to surf with Wi-Fi. And to the person that reported
"Find in page does not work in Bookmarks page": we have fixed that one as
well

We would like to use this opportunity to thank you for the help in the
test phase. Without your support we would not have been able to find all
the strange issues on all those strange phones. Now, get ready to help
spread the word that a new version of the worlds most popular mobile
browser has arrived

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Upgrade with BiDi support for feeds

By Valgrind. Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 15:06:55

The Opera Mini 4 servers have been upgraded with quite a few improvements. To begin with the servers should now be nicer to phones that are low on available memory. but what we are are especially pleased with the new feed system and hope you will like it too:

Improved feed (RSS/Atom) viewer to support for bidirectional text and layout. Oh, and it's faster.
Fixed bug with <select> items being wrongly positioned.
Fixed problem with images in <object> tags not being rendered correctly.
Made sure image maps gets rescaled to fit the screen width.
Fixed problem with page being zoomed in when going to page which is in history.
Fixed problem with some phones with little memory getting too many images.
The server now prioritizes sending images at the top of the document if the phone's too low on memory to display them all.