Opera Mini on Mac OS
Thursday, 22. January 2009, 00:46:32
I was working on a paper about mobile access, and I noted that in the "State of the Mobile Web" report, top devices for mini included "desktop" as number 3 in Zambia and number 4 in Swaziland. Then I ran across instructions to use Opera Mini on Windows and on Linux, but not Mac. So here is the recipe...
The nice thing is it seems to be slightly simpler
As far as I know, this requires a mouse to work (I skimped on testing so far in my rush to write)
The nice thing is it seems to be slightly simpler
There are two things you need to install.
First download Opera Mini - you can use the same code that runs on actual phones, of course). Get the generic jar and jad files and save them somewhere.
Second, get Microemulator and unpack it.
And there you need to follow at least 3 of the following 4 instructions...
Run microemulator.jar, which is inside the Microemulator folder you now have.
You can make it use your full screen and get rid of the bit that looks like a phone. (If you want it to look like a phone emulator, skip this paragraph). In the Options menu, choose select device, which will give a list of devices. Use the "+" button to add a device, and in the popup, look for the "microemulator - resizeable" inside the devices folder in your microemulator folder. Then you can set that device as a default, resize the window, or use the resize button to say what you want.
Now, from the file menu, select "open file" and open the operamini .jad file you downloaded.
You will see Opera Mini as an option - click it. And away you go...
I haven't yet tried to enable Save Page and Find Text features, but I will edit this to add those instructions when I have figured it out. There are also more Windows instructions and more Linux instructions around...




srippon # 22. January 2009, 03:07
It's very cool to be able to test things will look like in Opera Mini from your PC.
Cheers,
Scott Rippon.
Chas4 # 22. January 2009, 04:05
jsmanrique # 22. January 2009, 15:55
chaals # 1. February 2009, 19:24
@jsmanrique: Cool - thanks for the tip. I should do that (although to be honest it only takes me a minute to get the thing running so I never quite get around to it
Chas4 # 1. February 2009, 19:51
It tests very well, I find it funny that Opera Mini 4.2 does better on the Acid 2 test than IE 7 that makes a bloody mess
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Ie7acid2.png/150px-Ie7acid2.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_2_test
SqueakeyCat # 1. February 2009, 22:09
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=265464&t=1233513424&page=1#comment2882655
and thx for ur input
cowsAndPassingTrains # 2. February 2009, 23:04
chaals # 3. February 2009, 18:17
@SqueakeyCat, sorry but I am not really a linux user anymore, so I think the other people following up are going to be more helpful.
@cowsAndPassingTrains, as far as I know there are no plans to put Dragonfly directly into the Mini client (but then, I probably wouldn't know if there were). But you can rest assured that we are thinking about ways to handle this - although it is complicated...
Chas4 # 3. February 2009, 22:21
SqueakeyCat # 5. February 2009, 00:32
ajikoe # 21. February 2009, 15:08