Guest wobblydoggy Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 just been released on the market and optimized for tablet, its good :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest simonta Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Don't want to sound curmudgeonly and not saying good or bad but I recommend that you make sure that you understand the difference between Opera, Opera mobile and Opera Mini, how Opera works and read the license agreement before you make a decision. Be aware that encrypted pages are decrypted on the Opera servers before being re-encrypted, compressed and sent to you. All well and good when a benign company owns those servers but what if.... Make an informed decision, not just "looks good". Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bazanime Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) Fair enough I agree with the caution needed, but frankly we do the same thing with Google everyday :D. They must know every thing about me by now and that's the risk we take more and more in this new cloud based world. Opera are veterans in the business and I can trust them to source secure datacentre partners as much I can the other major online companies. Online info is never entirely safe from anyone. That said, opera should work on a more secure solution. Don't make it too easy for malicious use. Edited March 23, 2011 by bazanime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blcollier Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 To be honest, I'm more concerned about the compression that mobile versions of Opera performs on images. These days, you do not need to compress images to get pages to load quicker; it's not like we're using WAP any more. I want the full un-censored and un-compressed experience I get on my desktop, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boh Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 does it work with flash player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest warriorscot Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 There is usually a setting to turn compression off. When I get back from cyprus I amica definately giving this a try as opera is typically my browser of choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Opera Mini is the best of the two, but has no flash support Opera Mobile has flash support Neither have the option to change User Agent, so the tablet always identifies itself as a phone and therefore many websites display poorly, I would much rather stick to Miren Browser for now with its UA set to Chrome. Maybe if Opera add the ability to change UA then I might reconsider it, but for now its no use at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thedicemaster Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 opera mobile does have an option for user-agent. search user-agent on the opera:config page and you get a box where you can enter a different one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 opera mobile does have an option for user-agent. search user-agent on the opera:config page and you get a box where you can enter a different one. wow, ok thanks will take a look now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HunteronX Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 wow, ok thanks will take a look now Yeah, it works. I like the smoothness of the browser, but I haven't tried flash with it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kevrae Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 really liking the new version of mini flash works fine and liking the browser bar at the top includes search back/forward and a quick little menu button. I do like it been using it for a few days and good so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 For those that want to change the UA Go to the address bar and type "Opera:Config" then go Then search in teh search box for "user-agent" then in the box below input this "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.706.0 Safari/534.25" Then press save and restart the browser this will give you Chrome's UA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kraaz Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) For those that want to change the UA Go to the address bar and type "Opera:Config" then go Then search in teh search box for "user-agent" then in the box below input this "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.706.0 Safari/534.25" Then press save and restart the browser this will give you Chrome's UA. right but this is temporary. if you paste it to user agent after restarting tablet, opera going to default settings again. to make it permanent search user prefs , in user prefs find custom user agent section and put it there. this one also make all web pages to show in desktop mode Edited March 23, 2011 by Kraaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dav0 Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Don't want to sound curmudgeonly and not saying good or bad but I recommend that you make sure that you understand the difference between Opera, Opera mobile and Opera Mini, how Opera works and read the license agreement before you make a decision. Be aware that encrypted pages are decrypted on the Opera servers before being re-encrypted, compressed and sent to you. All well and good when a benign company owns those servers but what if.... Make an informed decision, not just "looks good". Cheers Is it not only the mini version that uses the opera servers? I thought the mobile version connects directly to whatever point the browser to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boh Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 (edited) I love Opera, but i'm not able to access to user agent. I type "opera:config" in adress bar than i press go and it give me a page, but when i tap on word "user agent" nothing happends, but i'm able to scroll the entire page. :D Edited March 23, 2011 by boh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest godinandroid Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I gave it a go, having used it before and ditched it. The new version is definately better, but I still prefer Miren. I found scrolling weird and jumpy, and it kept zooming in when I didn't want it to :/. Will check again on the next update, as I'd like the Opera Unite stuff to work on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bl1nky Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I've given it a run today, and switched back to miren. It was slower to load and nowhere near as slick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest simonta Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Is it not only the mini version that uses the opera servers? I thought the mobile version connects directly to whatever point the browser to It does, but that's my point. If you just search for Opera, you see both next to each other in the market. No indication for the non-geeks that mini uses intermediates. I've made a concious decision based on that knowledge, just trying to steer others to the same state of conciousness :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dav0 Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 It does, but that's my point. If you just search for Opera, you see both next to each other in the market. No indication for the non-geeks that mini uses intermediates. I've made a concious decision based on that knowledge, just trying to steer others to the same state of conciousness :D I would note that there is a turbo option in the mobile version for compressing files, which I presume is similar to mini, so would present the same security "risk" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thedicemaster Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 right but this is temporary. if you paste it to user agent after restarting tablet, opera going to default settings again. to make it permanent search user prefs , in user prefs find custom user agent section and put it there. this one also make all web pages to show in desktop mode that's the exact same settings entry. and if you hit save, it should stay until you wipe opera's data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boh Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 I love Opera, but i'm not able to access to user agent. I type "opera:config" in adress bar than i press go and it give me a page, but when i tap on word "user agent" nothing happends, but i'm able to scroll the entire page. :D Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Anyone? type "User-" then it should give you the box for "user-prefs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lennyuk Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Anyone? type "User-" then it should give you the box for "user-prefs" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boh Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 type "User-" then it should give you the box for "user-prefs" thanks, i type "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.706.0 Safari/534.25" and now it works well after rebooting too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rferrett Posted March 24, 2011 Report Share Posted March 24, 2011 Jaysus though it is piss poor design if oyu have to go to all that malarky to change the user agent. What were they thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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