Opera Mobile 11.5 for Symbian/S60

The time has come for the release of Opera Mobile 11.5 for Symbian/S60!

We are very happy about this release, and here are the reasons, a.k.a. the changelog:

• Access to your system bookmarks through browser UI
• New setting to enable system status bar: you get instant access to notification pane on your Symbian Belle phone
• Support for more languages in the browser UI (6 new languages added)
• Browser cache is placed on mass storage/external flash card on some devices
• Improved YouTube/RealPlayer integration
• New setting: Smart Turbo - Turbo is switched off automatically if browser is using WiFi connection
• Check how much data traffic you saved using Opera Turbo on "Data Usage" page
• Bookmark your favorite pages easily with a star in URL address field

To get hold of this great version, go to http://m.opera.com on your phone or http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/ from your PC.

Also, if you have problems with certain fonts in Opera Mobile, please read our forum post: How to install additional TTF fonts.

As always, we welcome your feedback here in our forum, and please report issues using the "Report a problem" tool in Help.

Thanks!

The Opera Mobile Symbian/S60 team

Hi, yes font is the problem in my OM 11,50 you didn't remember to place 80% zoom for web pages didn't you ? But instead you placed 200% hey nobody is that blind give us 90%, 80% zoom options not just 75%

In this new version, I can see that we can access Opera Mini bookmarks. Are these bookmarks, the ones stored in the cloud, or the ones stored in Opera Mini for S60 installed in the device?

Unfortunately Opera 11.5 will still freeze very often on the Nokia E71.

There was a time when I prefered to use Opera as Browser on my E71. Unfortunately with some version Opera really got even worse than the crappy Symbian-Browser since it really will freeze the phone on nearly every step.

Did none of the developers test the current versions with an E71??

How come the option to send a link as a text message is no longer available when using the cell phone network? It was there on the previous version on Mobile. It worked when I was using wifi.

I use 200% zoom haha!

Thanks for the update Opera people!

Mobile 11.5 is working pretty well on my Nokia E6. Better hardware keypad support when navigating menus would be nice though, the E6 is a Qwerty device first and foremost even if it also has a touch screen

I was however a little disappointed to see bookmark management is unchanged and to put it bluntly is still poor. The little star is an easy way to add bookmarks but how many of us add numerous bookmarks everytime we use Opera Mobile. Many of us will frequently access our bookmarks every time we browse the internet but this is compromised by no facility to organise them how we want other than into yet more and more folders. How about the ability to reorder them like in Opera Mini?

On the subject of bookmarks. How do I delete the "symbian bookmarks" thing that now appears in bookmarks. I have no need or desire for this folder, it is just unnecesary clutter to me. Was there really a large user demand for this?

Still no favicons on the speed dial, just a meaningless micro size snapshot of a webpage at the moment in time you add it to the speed dials. This remains the largest issue that reduces the speed and efficency of the speed dial function. You find you go more off your own memory of what is placed where rather than it being clearly and immediately identifiable.

I like it, Facebook doesn't seem to go "Blank" on me anymore.

However, it still has this horrible bug on my N8 where as soon as a page loads, it lags for a few seconds and doesn't let me try to scroll or do anything.

I take the Facebook bug back, it still goes to a blank white page at times..

Come on, you guys can do better. 11.0 was FLAWLESS for me!

STILL NO FLASH LITE SUPPORT ,ANY WAYS THANKS FOR THIS UPDATE!!!!

Opera Mobile 11.50 work perfectly on my Nokia E71,but,i have one problem with facebook,sometimes,show me a blank page,any idea,what is the problem?

Originally posted by borisgut:

Opera Mobile 11.50 work perfectly on my Nokia E71,but,i have one problem with facebook,sometimes,show me a blank page,any idea,what is the problem?

You're not the only one with this problem. I have it too since 11.1..

It's a shame Opera doesn't test one of the most popular social networking sites.

I ended up getting fmobi, on the Ovi store. Best thing I ever bought there..

Originally posted by Flexman:

Unfortunately Opera 11.5 will still freeze very often on the Nokia E71.

There was a time when I prefered to use Opera as Browser on my E71. Unfortunately with some version Opera really got even worse than the crappy Symbian-Browser since it really will freeze the phone on nearly every step.

Did none of the developers test the current versions with an E71??

I have to confirm this. Opera Mobile 11.5 is absolutely unusable on the Nokia E71. I had to downgrade to the previous version (11.10) from the Opera FTP server.

To be honest, I'd like to see a greater focus on stability from Opera. It's great to be the most innovative company in the browser market, but at the end of the day what matters in a professional environment is that the product does the job. If it doesn't, it's not going to gain any market share over competitors whose product may not be as innovative and sexy, but which simply works.

Originally posted by nonreturntozero:

Opera Mobile 11.5 is absolutely unusable on the Nokia E71.

Can you please give us more details, preferably by using the "Report a problem" tool in Help?

Originally posted by yuryp:

Can you please give us more details, preferably by using the "Report a problem" tool in Help?

Like mentioned above, it's freezing all the time.

For example: With the Symbian brower I can open a site and also click a link on it during it still loads some images.

With Opera I want to open a site, then after some seconds the phone will completely freeze for at least have a minute (if not longer). I might move around with the cursor for about 5 seconds but even when I manage to click a link or when the site finished loading it will freeze again for about a minute. I cannot even zoom into the site, so I cannot read anything unless Opera stops freezing.

This happened with both Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. It seems to be a little bit better with the latest version Opera Mini, but still will happen. That problem exists with current versions on Opera on the E71 (S60v3), it also happened on the Nokia 5230 (S60v5). So we do not use Opera on these phones anymore since it doesn't really work. I think the problem already exists since Version 10.x but hasn't been improved in later versions.

still no suport flash player! But is great this new version.

Originally posted by bitelius2505:

still no suport flash player! But is great this new version.

android have a flash player support,i think!

When downloaded, I try to open it and I get "File corrupted". Help!

Originally posted by H82typ:

When downloaded, I try to open it and I get "File corrupted". Help!

i had same porblem,open again and installation will start,which is your phone?

Originally posted by H82typ:

When downloaded, I try to open it and I get "File corrupted". Help!

open file from your download folder,from your browser

Originally posted by yuryp:

Originally posted by nonreturntozero:

Opera Mobile 11.5 is absolutely unusable on the Nokia E71.

Can you please give us more details, preferably by using the "Report a problem" tool in Help?

I just did, using the aforementioned tool. As the 11.5 browser becomes completely unresponsive on every attempt to load a page, and cannot be closed without restarting the phone, I did report the bug from the 11.10 version browser, omitting the build number.

Sorry for my angry last post, but it's annoying as hell to upgrade after a long day, then find the program to not work at all while having to restart the phone multiple times, and going through the trouble of finding the old version to download from the FTP server, which isn't exactly easy to access from the download section.

11.10 works great though...

@ Boris: I did.
EDIT:
Finally got it to work. Keys 4&6 still control scrolling up & down respectively. Don't understand why. Midp key detector says 2&8 are up and down, 4&6 are left and right.

Also I've never been able to do multiple quotes within one post, including this v. Is there a clipboard in Opera Moblie I'm not familiar with? Can we get one,please?

How to switch from portrait to landscape manually?

I have an N82 and was using opera mobile 11.0 until today and I had it configured to use always landscape mode (I like it). But now I upgraded to opera mobile 11.5 and I am unable to configure it again to use landscape mode.

I don't want to use the internal accelerometer, its very annoying. I simply want to have opera mobile always in landscape mode.

What happened to the *# shortcut to switch between portrait and landscape?

Please give me some point on how to configure this. I took a in-depth look at opera:config but found nothing,

Originally posted by nonreturntozero:

I just did, using the aforementioned tool. As the 11.5 browser becomes completely unresponsive on every attempt to load a page, and cannot be closed without restarting the phone, I did report the bug from the 11.10 version browser, omitting the build number.
...
11.10 works great though...

Stange. On my E71 even 11.10 was a pain to use. But with 11.5 I have also the same problems like you.

BTW: I do not really have to restart the phone, you can shutdown Opera via the task manager. Just keep the home button pressed for some seconds. Then you'll see the task-manager where you can kick out Opera with the delete key.

Originally posted by H82typ:

Keys 4&6 still control scrolling up & down respectively. Don't understand why. Midp key detector says 2&8 are up and down, 4&6 are left and right.

That is indeed weird. Unfortunately we don't have that exact device at Opera. We do have other "slide" devices, though, and the last one I checked worked fine.

Have you reported this via the phone? If not, please do, and report the number back here.

Originally posted by ManneS:

That is indeed weird. Unfortunately we don't have that exact device at Opera. We do have other "slide" devices, though, and the last one I checked worked fine.

The E71 is not a slide device but it has a keyboard and S60v3 (meaning it has no touchscreen). However this problem also appeared on the Nokia 5230 which has S60v5 and touchscreen like most of the other S60 devices. On the 5230 I didn not try the current version, but it shows that this problem already exists longer and on differen phones.

Have you reported this via the phone? If not, please do, and report the number back here.

I did so right now. And it even freezed very often on the Opera report site!

Originally posted by Flexman:

Originally posted by nonreturntozero:

I just did, using the aforementioned tool. As the 11.5 browser becomes completely unresponsive on every attempt to load a page, and cannot be closed without restarting the phone, I did report the bug from the 11.10 version browser, omitting the build number.
...
11.10 works great though...

Stange. On my E71 even 11.10 was a pain to use. But with 11.5 I have also the same problems like you.

BTW: I do not really have to restart the phone, you can shutdown Opera via the task manager. Just keep the home button pressed for some seconds. Then you'll see the task-manager where you can kick out Opera with the delete key.

Thanks for the tip, hopefully I won't need it any more...

11.10 works great, 11.00 was problematic, I remember going back to 10 until the silent update came out.

@ Opera

If you tell me what you need and where to find it, I would be glad to provide you with more information if necessary.

Originally posted by Flexman:

The E71 is not a slide device but it has a keyboard

I was quoting H82Typ, which supposedly has a Nokia 6790 (according to his signature).

Do you have the same problem with scrolling with 2, 4, 6 and 8, Flexman?

Originally posted by ManneS:

Originally posted by Flexman:

The E71 is not a slide device but it has a keyboard

I was quoting H82Typ, which supposedly has a Nokia 6790 (according to his signature).

Do you have the same problem with scrolling with 2, 4, 6 and 8, Flexman?

i have that problem with scrolling,not always,but it happened!

Ok, ManneS, SRS60- 8981 . I'd like to add that this happens on all v's 10.1 and higher, as well as Mini v's higher than 5.x.

Originally posted by H82typ:

SRS60-8981

Thanks!

What about my problem with the N8, and constant 5 second lags when pages completely load? During the lag, I can't tap or scroll on anything, and after the lag clears, it then responds again but before responding, it then performs everything I tried to do, which may cause undesirable results.

That's my big annoyance, along with Facebook loading completely blank at times. Both of these I have reported in Opera.

Hi there,

I recently installed Opera Mobile 11.5 on my Nokia N82 for the first time in life. Pretty good for me, as a first-timer!

Just want to ask, how can I edit the speed dials on the browser?

Originally posted by muhammadhaf1z:

Hi there,

I recently installed Opera Mobile 11.5 on my Nokia N82 for the first time in life. Pretty good for me, as a first-timer!

Just want to ask, how can I edit the speed dials on the browser?

just press R on your phone keyboard and click edit,and that is it!!!

Hello,

I installed for the second time that new version on my nokia N8 (running Symbian anna v22), and I experienced that issue :

Firts install: the 11.5 was unusable. it stopped working after 5/6 seconds, impossible to quit the app or do anything. app not responding anymore. I even could'nt quit with the app manager !

I made a "soft reset" with no effect, then a hard reset and installed the version from nokia store (11.1) that workds perfectly.

Second install today: still unusable but some differences. Now, it seems that the phone can't connect, or connects very slowly on the web page. Then finally the app crashes and closes by itself.

I uninstalled the 11.5 and will re-use the 11.1

if you need more info, please ask.

best regards,

Originally posted by grosmono:

Firts install: the 11.5 was unusable. it stopped working after 5/6 seconds, impossible to quit the app or do anything.

Do you use Opera Link?

Originally posted by yuryp:

Originally posted by grosmono:

Firts install: the 11.5 was unusable. it stopped working after 5/6 seconds, impossible to quit the app or do anything.

Do you use Opera Link?

I do.

opera mobile 11.5 is amazing ,no bugs and no crashes or freezing...
Hope we get flash lite suport in next version pera mobile 12!!!!!

I can honestly live without Flash.

I'm all for HTML5.

Hi.
I installed Opera Mobile version 11.50.1894 for my Nokia N8 and there are troubles when I try open any internet pages.
The problem is that the browser is very slow and respond to my touches very slowly. The internet is via Wi-Fi(fast).
What is the problem?
Thanks, Roman.

Originally posted by yuryp:

Originally posted by grosmono:

Firts install: the 11.5 was unusable. it stopped working after 5/6 seconds, impossible to quit the app or do anything.

Do you use Opera Link?

Hi there,

yes I use Opera Link, but I think I remember it didn't work even before I activate the opera link.

Freezes and Crashes: Opera Mobile Version 11.50 Build 1893 Platform Symbian OS

1. WORST. UPGRADE. EVER. After upgrading from 11.1 to 11.50, I experienced a number of random freezes and craches of Opera, rendering it absolutely useless. Either Opera just froze, and after MANY seconds exited without notice, or it managed to freeze the entire mobile, forcing me to rip out the battery. The whole experience made me want to throw my NOKIA E90 out the window!

2. Nothing helped. As a last desperate measure, I deinstalled 11.50 and relied on "Opera Link". HUGE MISTAKE: as it turns out, the "Opera Link" feature is also a peace of shit. It synchronizez on a whim: do NOT expect your latest changes to be retained at next Login. After experimenting with it between two different versions of Opera, I found that the ONLY sure way of getting the latest changes transferred is to first LogOUT in the "source" program: that FORCES the synk; just ending the program DOES NOT(!). But not until the next time you LogIN with the "target" program, you are sure to get the updates: just starting the program DOES NOT SYNC; if you're "Logged in", you must first LogOUT, and then LogIN - AGAIN(!). After inspecting what was left of my Bookmarks, I found another little present from the Opera team: in my Bookmarks, there was originally a folder named "Opera". I had moved that folder into a new folder named "Apps" and filled it with dozens of Opera-related links. After the "upgrade", the "Opera" folder under "Apps" was gone, alls its Opera-related links destroyed, and there was a new "Opera" folder, that now just contained one link created by the installation. Either the original "Opera" folder that I moved had some invisible tag, or the installation routine just wipes any folder named "Opera". Incredibly stupid in either case. Thanks, Opera! And by the way: how hard can it be to introduce an "Empty Trash" feature? I'm SICK AND TIRED of emptying one object at at time: IT'S RIDICULOUS! And if your "solution" is to do it at the PC: well BIOYE. Oh, and one last thing: all of my Bookmarks and Searches have now LOST THEIR ICONS. OBVIOUSLY, the icons are NOT PART OF the "Opera Link" feature. "Great", huh? MUCH harder to tell apart, and so ugly it just makes me wanna throw up ... And as if that wasn't enough, I found that when I deinstalled 11.50, I also unintentionally, without ANY warning from Opera, erased ALL OF MY SAVED PAGES, most of which I will NEVER be able to replace from memory. "Smart" uninstallation routine, OPERA team!

3. After reinstalling 11.50, I drew the following preliminary conclusion: it SEEMS, there is no problem before activating "Opera Link", although I havent't tested that a lot because without my Bookmarks, Speed Dials and Searches - what's the point? But obviously AFTER activating "Opera Link", ANY operation can cause a freeze and crach of Opera, like navigating on a web page. One particularly unstable operation seemed to be opening opera:config, and while keeping it open jump to Settings using #8. Especially if you changed zoom, that certainly seemed to displease Opera big time. But, Alas, THERE IS NO 100% STEP-BY-STEP to reproduce the problem every time! Maybe the problem is only in the "Opera Link" content, but I doubt it. At any extent, I'm not going to stay with Opera if you can't fix this: after many, MANY years with Opera, I'm going with ANYTHING else, for instance with UC Browser which looks better and better, and has AUTOMATIC updates, something Opera has STILL not implemented, but given the quality of recent updates I'm not surprised ...

4. Another SERIOUS bug: if you edit text in a text frame, and mark text to cut out or replace, when you select "Options" and go down to select "Cut" or "Paste", THE SELECTION IS LOST. Same thing with text in the Address and Search frames.
Way to go, Opera. This actually USED to work ...
4b. A big ANNOYANCE: the '#' key in opera was previously implemented as '*' (and '*' as 'Chr *') on my internal NOKIA E90 keyboard. But with 11.50, someone thought it made great sense to actually implement it on '#' in stead. Apart from requiring Shift(it's a second row character), that key is on a VERY awkward position compared to '*'. If you had bothered to actually LOOK at a NOKIA E90 you would have SEEN that!

5. The actual REASON for my update to 11.50 was that I HAD HOPED that you would switch back to the option of displaying selected images on a page even with the "Load images" setting att OFF. Ever since version 11.1, you have switched to the INSANE option of "All or nothing": if I turn on "Load images", Opera doesn't only start downloading ALL images on the page in focus, it simultaneously downloads ALL images on ALL BACKGROUND PAGES, slowing down the performance of the entire mobile and hogging all memory 'til it's full , eventually closing all other apps - WITHOUT SAVING CONTENTS FIRST! It's the single dumbest design change so far, the ONE WORTHWHILE THING that Opera did better than all the other mobile browsers. And YOU TOOK IT AWAY?! And while on the subject of memory hogging, why in the world can't you implement block loading of web pages? UC Browser has had it for years! There's a lunatic style of web design that spreads like rabies that applies the dogma "keep it all on one page", and while that may keep readers keep on reading on a PC, on a mobile reader like Opera, that tries to load it all whatever the size, it can crash not just Opera but the entire mobile - while loading ONE FRICKIN' PAGE!

6. And while I'm at it, I might just as well let you know that I have found a workaround to that CRAZY habit of Opera that on some pages it loads, stops a while(as if done), then suddenly, on a whim as it seems, loads again, stops, loads - in an endless loop. If you hit "Stop" while it loads in that situation, you recieve AN EMPTY PAGE(!). It's really infuriating, and I have seen lots of complaints online where people have a hard time even being believed but I can assure you, the phenomenon is VERY REAL. This behaviour, apart from being annoying and slowing down Opera significantly, makes it VERY difficult to navigate the page, or searching for text using #3. The workaround is simple: open the URL using #1, hit Enter, and the SECOND the "Stop" option displays, you hit it. That takes care of most pages that loops.

Well, after this rant I guess you all hate me, but it was totally worth it, blah!
Don't bother pointing out that these are several complaints crammed into one, I'm not ignorant, just p****d that I actually have to point out what to me seems obvious flaws that either should have been fixed already or shouldn't occur in that latest ver!

The main complaint is obvious: it's on top. The rest I may or may not report separately, depending whether I'm bothered enough. In my opinion you could do it for me, I've made the effort typing them down. And truth be told I'm beginning to loose my patience with one crappy version after another ... I'm back on version 11.1, no choice :-( , so UC Browser looks better and better by comparison.

Cheers,

hi freind thanks for posting such a big review and complain for opera 11.5 new version i really fail to understand from opera people how come they could not locate the main fault of freezing of browser before final release in e7 and e90 I also experienced same thing what u have mentioned and now i am looking what opera poeple are silent and why they have not given any update for freezing isssue when we are loading 11.5 in e7 and e90 why opera poeple when they can release for same problem in andriod why they have not given any solution for e7 and e90 and other symbian os I really fail to understand when people are crying hue and due why opera are taking time to release update version of freezing isssue why final product testing dont take place before it is released to public

it is really sad moment that I had to restore back to operaa 11.1 which works better then 11.5 the new version why opera people are taking so much time


also why they changing the name of full screeen why cant they keeep the things to its original format why they need to linger the thing by modify there names really fail to understand

will opera technical team will isssue and tell us when freezing isssue will be solved in 11.5 version any dates?
regards
navendu

Originally posted by xanbr:

Freezes and Crashes: Opera Mobile Version 11.50 Build 1893 Platform Symbian OS

Originally posted by navendukumar:

will opera technical team will isssue and tell us when freezing isssue will be solved in 11.5 version any dates?

@xanbr, @navendukumar: thanks for your feedback! We're really sorry that freeze issue has affected you. We're working hard to solve it and will notify our users as soon as new version is available.

@navendukumar: do you use Opera Link? Does the problem go away if you disable Link?

Dear sir it get freeze when u try synchronise the book marks and even when pages are loaded it freezes this is update for u

Originally posted by navendukumar:

Dear sir it get freeze when u try synchronise the book marks and even when pages are loaded it freezes this is update for u

the opera link when u unsubscribe it then also gets freeze

@lnx64, @borisgut:

You both report problems with Facebook "going blank".

It may interrest you that UC Browser, which is completely free, and runs an operation in direct competition with Opera, has a *built-in* interface with Facebook, much like Opera search defaults to Google, so presumably, they have some financial agreement with Fb. Hence, I'm assuming that, given the financial incentive, and possibly an advantage in terms of Fb technical support, that Fb is, and will stay, much more stable with that browser ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Browser

Cheers

My device: NOKIA E90

A few more complaints:

1. FIX THE "Opera Link" feature! IT'S A PURE SHAM the way it handles itself:
a) A LogOUT is the ONLY way to FORCE updates from the device TO THE CLOUD; just ending the program DOES NOT!!
b) A LogIN is the ONLY way to FORCE updates from the cloud TO
THE DEVICE; just starting the program DOES NOT SYNC; if you're "Logged in", you must first LogOUT, and then LogIN - AGAIN!!

2. The "Opera Link" feature DOES NOT PRESERVE THE ICONS for Bookmarks and Searches. That is evident if you do a first install, or a new install after UN-installing, and then syncing.
YOU NEED TO FIX THIS. I can see 2 obvious solutions:
a) Make the icons part of the copy in the cloud.
b) Create an integrated option for updating all icons for Bookmarks and Searches.

3. WHY did you remove the hotkey for "Top/Bottom of page"??
It is ridiculously *infuriating* to have to scroll down and up by holding down keys, not to mention the strain to my fingers(no, *seriously*, it HURTS after hours of surfing)!
I honestly don't know if there ever was a "Top/Bottom of page" hotkey in Opera Mobile because I used Opera Mini before I discovered Opera Mobile, and I remember fiercely missing that d**n hotkey, thinking "Oh well, the entire user community will soon have demanded it back".
BUT, to my *utter* surprise, NOTHING has happened regarding this. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO MISSES IT?? Or IS THERE a hotkey and I just can't FIND it?
ALL of these numeric keys are available: 1 3 7 9 0
Now go ahead and give us BACK a "Top/Bottom of page" hotkey!!!

Cheers

I hope opera releases new version at the earlest freezing isssue gets solved

pl opera technical dept pl help us to get new version at the eraliest for opera 11.5

wait for new version!

New version.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1156162