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11. December 2011, 11:05:30

gavinkflam

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[Request]Speed dial improvements and some other suggestions

The current speed dial implementation on Opera Mobile and Mini is usable, but have many rooms for improvements.

Firstly, the speed dial mobile version only support displaying a maximum of 9 dials even it was synced with the desktop version. I suggest to implement paginating feature for speed dial (maybe switching pages with horizontal flick on devices with a touchscreen and navigation keys at the edge of a page on devices with hardware keys). It would be a great idea to have setting to customize the number of dials on a page also. Thus, devices with lager screen could have a better experience.

Secondly, I observed that the 'extension dials' are synced with the Opera Link server but could not be displayed in the mobile browsers. I suggest to display such 'extensions dials' as an ordinary dial with the URL specified by those extensions.

Thirdly, it would be great if the dials could be rearranged by by simple drag-and-drop (maybe switched to a editor mode after long click) and rearrange automatically after the user delete a dial.


In addition, I still have three more suggestions for other features.

Firstly, I suggest an 'automatic' choice for Opera Turbo just like what the desktop version provides. Sometimes the network speed varies a lot as the device is moving from place to place, it would be quite necessary to have such a smart switching scheme in order to further improve browsing experience.

Secondly, it is annoying that I have to perform 3 clicks to just switching a tab (my device doesn't have a hardware keyboard). I would need to perform even 4 clicks if the navigation bar was hidden. I suggest to auto-hide the tab stack after clicking on a tab. Moreover, making use of the volume rocker to switch between tabs as many other mobile browsers would be excellent.

Thirdly, would it be possible to implement Opera Notes in the next release? It would be awesome to sync notes between the desktop and mobile browsers.

Thanks for considering my suggestion. Also thanks the devs for delivering such a great mobile browsing experience to us.
I was once an Opera Mini fans because of the cutting-edge features on a s40 phone, however, Opera Mobile was not as competitive as many other browsers on Android. I really hope to see Opera Mobile and Mini to further improve and beat other new rising competitors in the market. smile

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