Opera Mini on your PC
By EspenAO. Thursday, 3. April 2008, 08:06:59
For those with slow connections this might make surfing the Web a whole new experience. ![]()
Imagine you're in a place where you can only connect to a 56k connection (or worse), but you really need to check out some stuff on the Internet... Well, one option is to use Opera Mini on your mobile phone, but it might be a hassle since text input can be a pain (and you're in a hurry), so what do you do?
Well, you tweak and use Opera Mini on your PC (of course)! You'll get proper text input, no more scrolling (due to fullscreen display) and still way less traffic (and thus faster page loading) than with a "normal" browser. Sweet! ![]()
First of all, kudos to both Lars Kleinschmidt (for the translation) and "Mr Nobody" from opera.perm.ru (for the idea).
If you think this is good, and want to spread the word, then digg it!
Where to download:
- Download and install the software you need (you can pick the snapshot as well).
- Unzip the archive (to a place you remember) on your PC.
- Download the Opera Mini .jar and .jad files.
How to make it work:
- Double-click on "microemulator.jar" to run it. If that doesn't work you'll have to type "java -jar microemulator.jar" in a console (please note you need to have JRE installed for this to work).
- Go to "Options -> Select device", click "Add...", navigate to "microemulator/devices" and select "microemu-device-resizable.jar".
- Select the "Resizable device" profile you added and click on "Set as default".
- Click on the "Resize" button in the lower right corner to choose prefered size.
- Go to "File -> Open JAD" and choose the Opera Mini .jad you previously downloaded.
- "Opera Mini" will now appear in the list of applications you can start.
- Click "Start" to launch it.
Feel free to browse the Web using Opera Mini on your PC, in whatever resolution you want! ![]()


By eztigma, # 3. April 2008, 08:13:52
Russian domain owners! \o/
PS: you know someone's going to say "why not just use Opera Mini Simulator?"
By coxy, # 3. April 2008, 08:19:14
By EspenAO, # 3. April 2008, 08:24:10
By zetoh_mesquita, # 3. April 2008, 08:24:56
By slimslim, # 3. April 2008, 08:42:55
By soumitram4u, # 3. April 2008, 08:45:46
By Smartinvest, # 3. April 2008, 09:30:52
By lachralle, # 3. April 2008, 10:06:58
Thats so helpful for me!...
By hi_care, # 3. April 2008, 10:39:00
By selurus, # 3. April 2008, 11:23:19
By Nico Zandberg, # 3. April 2008, 11:23:39
By wallpearl, # 3. April 2008, 11:57:07
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By Tamil, # 3. April 2008, 14:39:17
By AleksOD, # 3. April 2008, 15:01:45
By Lali19871014, # 3. April 2008, 18:22:41
Originally posted by coxy:
Not me... now.By Furie, # 3. April 2008, 22:32:01
Main idea - "Feel free to browse the Web using Opera Mini on your PC, in whatever resolution you want!",
in opera demo emulator - fixed low resolution
Full article in Russian - http://operafan.net/content/view/309/2/
By Mister Nobody, # 4. April 2008, 02:48:53
Really helpful as when i connect though my mobile GPRS its really slow this will help.
By kush_2000_in, # 4. April 2008, 04:24:58
i can't find local(offline) distrib of mpowerplayer
By Mister Nobody, # 4. April 2008, 06:01:55
By Mister Nobody, # 4. April 2008, 06:14:16
By zefo, # 4. April 2008, 06:46:25
I try and I adopt it
By bainah, # 4. April 2008, 07:10:51
http://blog.piclab.ru/e-pavlov/2008/03/25/opera-mini-dlya-asus-eee-pc.htm
By Eunix, # 4. April 2008, 08:09:33
If someone can help, it will be great
By bainah, # 4. April 2008, 12:15:33
i am not able to browse on pc with mini 4.0. can anyone help me out. i am using windows xp sp2 with IE6.
i am using microemulator 2.0.2.
message is coming "failed to connect to internet. go to http://www.operamini.com/help?version=4.0 with your desktop browser or contact your service provider for internet settings."
Please help me out.
regards
Max
By smax34, # 4. April 2008, 13:51:20
By rezadotcom, # 4. April 2008, 20:22:13
By lamarca, # 4. April 2008, 21:50:58
By miniman2, # 5. April 2008, 02:50:56
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By miniman2, # 5. April 2008, 16:43:35
By miniman2, # 5. April 2008, 16:45:37
"Download and install the software you need" please make this clear ,if we click link that leads us to http://microemu.org/ so which module should be downloaded then?"
Indeed, 'twas not very clear. I had to spend some time before getting to it.On the said page you have to click on Releases in the left menu under Downloads. Then, you are redirected. The "software you need" is microemulator 2 (it comes with 2 files:microemulator-2.0.2-sources.tar.gz and microemulator-2.0.2.tar.gz: you need both). Then you do what the quidelines say on this very opera page where I am writing. (ensure you have Java 1.4 minimum)
Good luck.
By dulmi, # 6. April 2008, 20:17:56
By cygoh, # 7. April 2008, 04:15:02
By tojoevan, # 7. April 2008, 04:26:43
By phoenyx, # 7. April 2008, 14:17:30
But,I'm wondering that why I can't use thise functions on Microemulator.
Download and upload files directly in Opera Mini
Save pages for offline browsing
Microemulator supports JSR75(FileConnection API).
And I can't input Japanese characters into OM4 directly in Microemulator.
Pls give me any idea to solve thise problems.
Thx!
By johngalliano, # 7. April 2008, 15:46:19
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By nonagarg, # 9. April 2008, 05:27:30
By kemalburak, # 9. April 2008, 08:37:59
(which is why I found Opera in the first place :-))
By jvvv, # 9. April 2008, 23:20:07
Originally posted by smax34:
Same here.By Tamil, # 10. April 2008, 14:48:36
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By linuxcity, # 10. April 2008, 21:06:03
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