Opera Mini 4 upgrade
Published by Steve Litchfield at 17:13 UTC, February 6th 2008
While most people have been getting excited about the pre-announcement of Opera Mobile 9.5, the hugely popular (and free) little sister, Opera Mini 4, has just had a big back-end (i.e. the bit that does the work) upgrade, which (among other changes, listed below) should improve browsing speed by (up to) another 20%.
Opera Mini 4 is, as always, at mini.opera.com (from your smartphone).
Changes made this week include, according to the Opera blog post:
- Added a simple UI to the server-side preferences that exists. Go to 'opera:config' to configure some settings.
- Tweaked phonenumber detection, there should be somewhat fewer false positives now, but you can now also disable the feature on the opera:config page.
- Increased the default timeouts to 40 seconds from 20.
- Updated to a HTML rendering engine to be similar to the latest Opera 9.5 weekly release.
- Fixed support for entering hostnames starting with a number (eg, 360.yahoo.com) as a URL without the starting http://
- Made content folds visible even when the background is black.
- Fixed inter-page links ().
- Fixed clipping rectangle for iframes with hidden overflow css
properties, this bug caused some links inside some iframes to be
unclickable.
- Fixed HTTP basic auth for pages with non-7bit authentication realm.
- Pages with nested <a> tags are now somewhat easier to navigate (<a href='link'>Link 1 <a href='link2'> Link 2</a></a>), it's now possible to follow both the inner and the outer link.
- New WML stylesheet.
- Various optimizations resulting in the average transcoding time to be 20% lower.
Categories: Software
Platforms: Series 60, General, S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3
News Discussion
hargs48
Fantastic to see continuous improvements of a great little app...:icon14:
Unregistered
Good news.
How come comments were disabled for the Opera Mobile 9.5 story by the way?
Anyway, that was good news too. Mobile looks very good. I hope it won't be sluggish, and I hope it will be deployed on Symbian very soon - I have a feeling the initial release was on Windows Mobile only. I can't think of the logic behind that cack-handed decision if it's true, given Symbian's vastly bigger deployment numbers (order of magnitude I think?). Very strange indeed. Opera Mobile 8.65 is a real dog compared to the Nokia Browser, so here's very much hoping 9.5 is way better. If it can do Google Maps with custom route overlays I'll be well pleased!
lionheart33806
It's a server update, not a client one.
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