Opera mobile for Nokia N9

Having used N9 for couple of days, I miss the excellent Opera Mobile that I had on my N900. I wish Opera Mobile would be available for Nokia N9.

I agree and completely second that. The default Nokia N9 browser works very well, but could definitely use some data compression while loading websites: I for one bought the N9 and using it with a "pay as you go" contract.
It would be a big mistake not to release Opera Mini _and_ Opera Mobile on the beautiful platform that MeeGo Harmattan is, given the positive feedback the N9 received since its announcement .

Cheers.

There is an unofficial version that can be installed, but I would love to see a real version with updates and such. (The unofficial version can be found here: http://sandst1.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/operamobile-11-00-for-harmattan/)

I agree. I'd love to see Opera Mobile officially available at the Nokia Store. I use it all the time on my Android devices, so I really miss it on my N9 Meego/Harmattan phone.

I love my Opera always used it on my old nokia, I cant belive Opera didnt make a download for the N9, Will they make one for the n9?

Please Opera, please please please port it to Meego-Harmattan! The only thing I miss from my N8 (Symbian) is the Opera browser.

This would make lots of users happy!

Putting down my vote for the N9 as well on the wish list. Miss it from the N8.

One vote from me too. Opera Mobile for Meego Harmattan !!

Come on Opera, we have PR1.1 now, bring on Opera! Lol, I have all my buddies hooked on Opera Mini or Mobile, that use Android Phones and iOS.

You're the best Mobile Browser on any platform, bring it to the best device

I'll sweeten the deal, if you bring it to the N9 I'll be your bestest friend.

I support this as well, Web browser on N9 is good for most websites but there is one touch which Opera gives for web browsing on Mobile devices which no one could. I request Opera to come up with Opera mobile and mini for N9. I would settle for it.

Official Opera would be highly appreciated! Please make the version soon. For me Opera is the best browser regardless of the device/platform.

Hopefully we hear great news from Opera...

Another vote for an official version of Opera for the N9.

Opera is the only browser which meets my requirements. Fennec and 'Web' lack some important features such as wrapping the text when I zoom in rather than making me side scroll and syncing my bookmarks with the PCs, etc.

I am currently using the unofficial version but would really appreciate the latest one with updates, better keyboard, etc like on Symbian^3.

Adding my vote to this....
Please bring a SwipeUX-based Opera to Maemo6x (MeeGo-Harmattan) & the N9/950 ASAP.

This is Nokia's 1st (sadly their last) true commercial implementation* thanks to lessons learned from the N900.
OPK: "N900 is step 5 of 6...."
Yet proper Opera support is MIA when it wasn't for the N900, seems arse-backwards!?

*mass-market, consumer-focused.

I'll add my vote, really miss Opera sync on my N9 and an official version of Opera is a real need, someone please sort out asap !!

Please include my vote for Opera Mobile for the Nokia N9!!!!!
Cheers
(mi5)

+1 from me. Is there any chance we can use Opera browser on Nokia N9? Waiting (patiently)!

Please opera,what can i do? I cant upload pics from my nokia6630 via opera and it really sucks.

+1 from me. Really wishing that we could get Opera Mobile properly ported to N9 straight from Opera. The phone has really grown on me and the only thing I am missing at this point is Opera mobile. I use Opera with my Win/Mac computers, iPad and Android tablet and on my secondary phone SGS2. Yes I have too many devices but the only one missing some Opera love is my N9. Please give us a nice Christmas present

Been using Opera Mobile on my Nokia N9 for few days, and it looks great. Downloaded from My-Meego.
It does not offer portrait view, but yes... I agree with the other people here: Official products by Opera, please...

+1, we need opera mobile on N9!

Only thing I miss on nokia c7 is opera mini or mobile, please please....

I bought my Nokia N9 yesterday. Fantastic device. but I MISS MY OPERA MINI on it. OPERA, please make the Opera Mini/Mobile available for the N9. Pls do before i go crazy

I too would love to have Opera Mobile on my N9!

Guy, you might want to check this link... http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/

You'll find Opera Mobile 11 (MeeGo)

Originally posted by lukkie:

Guy, you might want to check this link... http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/

You'll find Opera Mobile 11 (MeeGo)

Nokia N9 have Meego Harmattan and uses DEB files and not RPM
that meego version are for more clean meego devices

+1, we need opera mobile on N9!

Originally posted by ryks82:

Originally posted by lukkie:

Guy, you might want to check this link... http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/

You'll find Opera Mobile 11 (MeeGo)

Nokia N9 have Meego Harmattan and uses DEB files and not RPM
that meego version are for more clean meego devices

I installed the 'beta' version of the Opera Mobile 11 using the instructions here >> www.n9fanclub.com/2011/11/how-to-install-opera-mobile-and-root.html

Works fine but u can't manually select an access point. Has a few other quirkies but it's okay until the official Harmattan version comes out. Thanks.

I also would like opera. Its been my main browser for many years now and really miss it for the N9.

I have th unofficial, but opera link wont work in addition to always landscape mode and a bit unstabillity.

Thanks in advance
- Martin

I would love to have this beautiful browser running on the Nokia N9 please consider making an official release.

Im in on the wishlist vote. Opera team. Please get opera mini onto the nokiastore for the N9 as soon as you can. Love opera, and the basic browser on the N9 is just ok.

Hi People at Opera,

I have always used Opera on every phone and computer that I've used as it's so simple and consistent throughout the changing platforms. (except a little less polished on Ubuntu)

The N9 is amazing... It would be better and more familiar With an opera browser in it.

My favorite browser for the N900 is Opera Mobile. Now I own an N9. Please make Opera Mobile support the N9. Thanks!

Originally posted by blomsternisse:

I agree. I'd love to see Opera Mobile officially available at the Nokia Store.

Add my vote to official support from Opera for the Nokia N9.

Note: I would be willing to pay for this browser in the Ovi store (assuming the browser is stable and has good performance etc).

Thanks!!

so disappointed N9 support Opera .. which is daily must have web browser

Like the others, I too would love to see an updated version of Opera Mobile for MeeGo on the N9.

Right now, N9 users are using a repackaged version of the Labs release of Opera Mobile (post: http://www.n9fanclub.com/2011/11/how-to-install-opera-mobile-and-root.html / video: http://youtu.be/eff_MRQbw0I ), which has 2 major issues: no portrait mode (ie. no rotation detection), and a wonky bottom-right button (to bring back the bottom bar when the page is loaded).

I, for one, would welcome another Labs release, fixing these few quirks, so that the N9 users can enjoy the browser they love.

If there's a kind soul at Opera with enough free time and a big heart, that would be truly awesome.

Originally posted by ccc:

Originally posted by blomsternisse:

I agree. I'd love to see Opera Mobile officially available at the Nokia Store.

Add my vote to official support from Opera for the Nokia N9.

Note: I would be willing to pay for this browser in the Ovi store (assuming the browser is stable and has good performance etc).

Thanks!!

I don't think we should be asking for an "Official release" on the N9 onto the Ovi Store (ie. Opera would have to provide support and future updates for the platform). We should, however, be asking for an updated "Labs" release, fixing the few quirks the current repackaged versions has (ie. full-featured, working version, but without support).

Opera devs are busy supporting a wide range of platforms already, and the previous MeeGo Labs release was done out of kindness during someone's free time from what I understand. Hence why, out of respect for their work, we shouldn't petition for an official release, but rather, a single, "use it at your own risk", updated Labs release for us MeeGo/N9 users.

Everyone with some history following Opera would know that Opera has a very bad relationship with Nokia ever since Nokia decided to make their own browser (and WebRunTime) over WebKit instead of using Opera, which had made versions for all Symbians even when they were called EPOC32.

Opera was doing MeeGo versions because of Intel's involvement, and since under Tizen the WAC library is first-tier and Opera is heavily involved in WAC, I do not believe anyone at Opera gives a about Nokia and MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan. Which is damn unfortunate, since it's by far the most amazing phone and mobile OS I have ever put my hands on.



However, if someone at Opera would recompile the 11.5 Labs MeeGo build (it exists) for ARM, someone would surely repackage it as DEB and we could try to get it running on the N9.

I have even less hopes for Opera Mini. The community is working on porting the whole java JRE and J2ME libraries to the N9, and then we may be able to use the J2ME Opera Mini, but I don't know if that handles touchscreens or needs a keypad.

If Opera is on bad relations with Nokia, it will be harder to convince Opera to create a MeeGo Harmattan version of Opera Mobile, considering Nokia itself has decided the platform is dead. Opera has limited resources available, limited "programmer time", and has to manage it where it's more useful. MeeGo was considered a "future platform", separate from the main ones (used to be Symbian and Windows Mobile, now it's Symbian and Android). The main ones get most of the effort, the other ones get what's left.

So, Opera's problems are not the infighting that was going on at Nokia, it's just the opposite: someone is deciding what is to be done and what is not based on criteria and not which managers shout hardest, and as far as I can tell, Opera has decided a few years ago to do MeeGo Intel-style (now to be called Tizen). Why would any sane manager put programmers on a version of Opera for a dead system when there's a promise to use the same programmers and do LESS WORK for an OS (Tizen) that promises to give the Opera browser the same place as Mobile Safari has on iOS, which is, SYSTEM LIBRARY?

We just have to lobby Opera to update Opera Mobile for the N9. C'mon Opera, Nokia might have a few N950s left if you register as an N9 developer. Nobody at Opera fancies an N950?

On the surface, it doesn't look like Opera needs to do much work:

There's already a 11.0 version, but it's pure MeeGo. It needs to be adapted to use the Harmattan keyboard/input manager and the media framework of Harmattan, at the very least. Because of this, Opera Mobile can't appear on the Ovi Store but can be installed manually.

If you can live with a worse keyboard, no autocorrection, and no Youtube or HTML5 videos, you can use this build right now as I do, and get Opera Link, Speed Dial and Opera Turbo on the N9.

But if they're going to adapt, please adapt Opera 11.5 Labs, which is only compiled for Intel and needs a separate build for ARM to be used in the N9. The fact that this more recent build, released in November (when the N9 was already a certainty and the N950 devkits were at developers for 3 months) was not compiled to ARM at all is what's very disappointing for me. Remember, MeeGo Harmattan is fully MeeGo 1.2 compatible and a recompile and a couple of weeks of bugfixing would get the job done, with the same issues as in the current 11.0 build.

I say we start a petition. Maybe some publicity on MyNokiaBlog and My-Meego.com will help us. Since Opera is not open-source, we can't take the matter in our own hands.

[edit]
Of course, Tizen can come to our rescue:

In an interview at CES 2012 this week, Samsung's Tae-Jin Kang has revealed his company's intention to fold bada OS into the Intel-backed Tizen open source OS project. Bada is, or was, Samsung's homebrew effort at developing its own operating system, an effort that we were dubious about from the start. After failing to find much traction with its Wave handsets, Samsung is now wisely deciding to abandon hope of going it alone in the cutthroat mobile OS realm and is joining up with a development project that offers an opportunity for collaboration with others.

That's not to say that Tizen has much better prospects that bada would've had on its own. Tizen is the new badge placed upon MeeGo, the formerly promising Linux-based OS that Intel and Nokia were going to rock our world with until Nokia decided Windows Phone offered a better shot at success. In truth, this is a coming together of two outsider projects that need to consolidate their powers if they're to stand any chance.

Samsung promises backwards compatibility with current bada apps in its future integrated software product, as well as continued support for apps written using the bada SDK. "At least one to two" Tizen-powered Samsung phones will come out this year, according to Forbes' quote of Tae-Jin Kang, though it appears the open source OS will figure in the lower portion of the company's portfolio. The true high end will remain dedicated to Android and Windows Phone for the foreseeable future.

(Source: theverge.com)

See, Opera? Everybody that touches LiMo or the Linux Foundation ends up dead. LiMo has never produced any phone of note and has gobbled up Maemo, Moblin, and now Bada. Meanwhile, Intel is going gangbusters on Android for x86, and has no foreseeable use for MeeGo/Tizen - no word on IVI, embedded and tablet markets, the Bada merging is for handsets.

So, Tizen will support (at least) Bada API, MeeGo API (frozen at 1.3 and deprecated), HTML5 API, probably a community port of WebOS API, WAC API. All these APIs and they expect it to have any kind of battery life?

LiMo, MeeGo, Tizen, it's a bad joke. Nokia should have NEVER gotten into MeeGo, it lost two years, we could be going on Maemo7 by now and instead several million dollars of development of Maemo/MeeGo were declared "not enough/ dead on arrival" by Nokia's CEO. Thankfully, we got ourselves an N9 out of it. It's the Linux Phone (tm) done right.

Get to it, Opera.

I just made account here to tell you that I would also like this!
Bumping this tread up!

The N9 community needs a complete browser, preferably with flash support.

Come on Opera!

@oeloemo
There will not be loyalty to those that cannot deliver.
This will be a race between Opera and Mozilla, the one who delivers first browser with flash support will be the preferred browser for me.

I am looking for a replacement phone and love the N9 and I was checking to see if there was Opera for it. Oh well, I guess not, so I guess I have to buy another Android phone. I hate Android, but there's really no good alternative at this time, oh well. I would have bought the N9 if there was Opera.

Part of Opera Mobile11.0 problems is that it's a TABLET build running on a phone. The chrome is too big, could be resized to 75% no problem.

So how's that for having good APIs! It's a MeeGo app for tablets, repackaged from RPM to DEB, on a PHONE that isn't MeeGo at all, and apart from a couple of integration bugs, it works better than the native browser!

I know I am a bit late to the game, but having just got an N9 in the UK, I really miss Opera on my phone (coming from an iPhone). Not having Link in the unofficial 950 version is a real pain, so come Opera, there are enough of us and it can't be that difficult to do.

Opera Link is present on the unnoficial Mobile 10.0.

I vote with yes to opera mobile on my n9

Waiting for Opera Mini for Meego-Harmattan too

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Thank you, Opera,for publishing Opera 11.5 Labs for MeeGo to the Ovi Store. It is exactly what I asked as a first step: the recompile to ARM and bug fixing. We now have portrait support, settings that get saved, the option to turn off Turbo when in Wifi (great idea), and a more sensitive menu button in fullscreen mode. And the 11.5 rendering engine. I am writing this post from 11.5 Labs on my N9.

Wishlist,of course, is to get Harmattan keyboard and spellcheck integration, and since the N9 uses gstreamer, some HTML5 media handling. But I'm not really counting on that.

https://store.ovi.com/content/255196

Installed it today on N9 and I'm loving it. I am liking the icon colour which is not the usual Opera red one. Kudos to Opera for making Opera mobile it for this wonderful device and listening to your users. Hats off to that.

Yeah. It looks and feels great to use. Harmattan keyboard next on the list please Opera.

Has anyone noticed any excessive battery usage? I left Opera running as a background application this afternoon and the battery usage application is showing that Opera has used about 20% of the battery and my idle usage has shot up too.

Originally posted by jonathandtcox:

Yeah. It looks and feels great to use. Harmattan keyboard next on the list please Opera.

Has anyone noticed any excessive battery usage? I left Opera running as a background application this afternoon and the battery usage application is showing that Opera has used about 20% of the battery and my idle usage has shot up too.

I honestly haven't left it opened, but I'll keep watch on Battery Monitor.

Thank you OPERA for publishing it. I'm so happy!

There's some issues to fix, like the aforementioned keyboard. I don't think Location Services is working.

If you guys ever want us to post bugs in some official manner, I'm sure you'll have our support.

Thanks again!

Thank you Opera Team thank you!!!!!! i missed Opera on my mobile so much.......

Originally posted by jonathandtcox:

Yeah. It looks and feels great to use. Harmattan keyboard next on the list please Opera.

Has anyone noticed any excessive battery usage? I left Opera running as a background application this afternoon and the battery usage application is showing that Opera has used about 20% of the battery and my idle usage has shot up too.

In the Labs blog article they explain some of the issues with this build. One of them is that the app does not "sleep" when the phone is locked.

This is blazingly fast!

Is there any way to disable the autorotation?

The Meego on-screen keyboard is a must. I mean, a real MUST. There's no way I'm willing to use the Opera keyboard, it sucks so big time.

Great release, hopefully there's more to come since this has some serious potential.

I am unable to download Opera for N9 from Nokia Store. Keep getting "Setup cannot continue due to a (download) error. Occasionally phone says that the program is downloaded.

Anything I can do? Any other source for download?

Originally posted by arihuh:

I am unable to download Opera for N9 from Nokia Store. Keep getting "Setup cannot continue due to a (download) error. Occasionally phone says that the program is downloaded.

Anything I can do? Any other source for download?

Check the newsflash at the Opera Labs. There's a direct link for the deb installation package.

I can only say THANK YOU Opera. Now my N9 is re-born. You guys are the BEST!

Thanks for Opera

I have nokia n9
Opera mobile not working properly with sites in armenian language (I see squares instead of letters).
How i can resolve this problem

thank you Opera for bringing this out. It feels like i'm browsing the web once again, the way i like it.... and the way it should be...its a pleasant surprise

i wish we also had an option to use the inbuilt keyboard.... especially swype.

Yarr mateys Thanks opera for giving us N9 users your real good opera browser! Its really nice to see opera giving support for harmattan.

There are things missing, hopefully they will be added later
- swype support, this only must-have feature lacking currently
- maybe flash, not really 100% needed but would be Nice
- power saving features enabled , yeah and takes its toll on battery when left on background

Anyway thanks for your support so far! Been using opera on mobile phones since nokia 5610 xm

Ovi Store has updated my Opera Mobile Labs to 12.00.2. I had a thread about it here somewhere...

Changes seen so far:
* Presto 2.10.254
* Possible to change User Agent (to S60, Android, MeeGo and Desktop)
* Localization of the interface for Portuguese and possibly other languages
* Setting for using the native harmattan keyboard (Always, For everything but web addresses, Never) Too many bugs
Some of them: Keyboard hides active text field - does not push page up; always appears in landscape, even when phone and Opera are in portrait; native keyboard is hard to dismiss; text written by native keyboard appears very very small on Google search field of the address bar; sometimes even the two keyboards appear at the same time.
* Adds new pages to Speed Dial
* No Mobile Extensions support (still Android-only)
* Closing tabs only needs one tap.

Thank you to all involved.

Just a small thanks.

It is good to have it on my N9 too.

- M

How do I enable the native Harmattan keyboard on Opera Mobile 12.00.8? And are there coming any future updates of the app to Harmattan/Meego?

It's been deactivated by the developers because they found it too buggy.

Originally posted by tigas:

It's been deactivated by the developers because they found it too buggy.

Have they said anything about if it will return in future versions (if there are any future versions coming that is)?

They've been awfully quiet about Opera after 12.0.0.8. Opera has a big, big job trying to get 12.50 ready (they've had to branch out 12.10 in the meantime) and Opera Mini still needs more development on Android. The devs are doing Opera for N9 on their spare time.