Opera Mini 4.2 beta feedback

Opera Mini 4.2 beta feedback

As you all probably know by now, we just released Opera Mini 4.2 beta. We would like you all to send us some constructive feedback in this thread. Remember that bugs should be reported either via your phone (Menu -> Tools -> Help -> Bug report) or through the bug report wizard.

Thanks,
The Opera Mini team

Thank you - it no longer hangs the 2nd time you run it on my Samsung M800!

@doministry
Silver is fine, I think he was talking about black one.

...theos //

Permissions disappear again, I mean on my P1i it still asks me for permissions, after just two times I used OM 4.2.
Why??

The having-to-click-twice-on-a-result-to-open-it problem on google search, is fixed! Thanks, Opera!

Another happy Instinct owner! Thanks! Much better browsing experience than 3.1, now we only have 8 days until our LCDUI key fix!

Once thing needed even in Opera Mini 4.1 is the ability to copy & paste. For example, often send myself mobile URLs I find using my desktop via SMS to my phone, then would like to copy & paste into the address field in Opera Mini. Likewise, I'd like to be able to copy links form Opera Mini to my phones clipboard for use elsewhere. While I'm at it, how about the ability to arbitrarily select any text on the page and copy it?

Originally posted by aleksandarkazi:

@ariuszym - I think you should go to mini.opera.com/beta on your phone and download it with default browser.
You should see the link with "signitures" or something like that ...

Thanks

Ok ok. I'm not talking about 4.2 . Despite GoJoeGo's attitude, it's still a minor release and with ' no ' popular requested features available. So, where's the Opera 9.5 for S60 ? Forget not, Skyfire has come a long way and honestly, handles pages much better than Opera 8.65 or OM4.2 .

can not load on my phone samsung sgh z170, closed after java logo splash screen

Tried the new Opera Mini Beta 4.2, once again, very disappointed that it crashed my Nokia E51 phone using Psiloc Font Magnifier! The original fonts on the E51 are way too small for this middle-age guy, no choice but to use Font Magnifier! If only the best web browser will take that into account, perhaps one day when another new version is released?

... just Installed OM 4.2 everything works great, the skin 'finally' there, Woohoo!!! .... but only one setback.... 'my phone!' hehe ( rizr Z3 ) i cannot view vid @ youtube,... Thanks.

First of all, Thank you, Opera Mini Team for bringing out such a fine and innovative browser!

I'm pleased to report that 4.2 is working great on Esmertec Jbed/Windows Mobile 5/i-mate PDAL.

Feedback :
How about making the black skin the default? (after fixing the progress bar, of course.) It'd also be in tune with the default black skin in Opera (Desktop) 9.6.

Feature Requests:
1) How about adding a scroll-bar or automatic text scrolling in the 'Enter text' prompt? When typing long messages like this, the text becomes hidden after a screenful of typing and one can't see what they're typing. :|

2) An option to force-indentify the device as a handheld or desktop (just like in Opera Mobile) so that we may force a website to load the full/mobile version. (Eg: Orkut)

Opera mini 4.2 seemed the same with the previous version,except that you can change skin and can play video,but still uses the built in browser and uses the phone network instead of wlan when you are using the wifi. Hoping for more improvement..

.The speed of 4.2 is noticable here in my phone and im using it right now.AWESOME eventhough it is only a beta version,I wish the final version could play streaming in my K300i. more power!

I have downloaded Opera Mini Beta 4.2 on my Nokia E71 but its not working.

The error showing is "Contents block by Operator"

Wat to do????

Originally posted by GoJoeGo:

@manustays: how on earth does a couple of guys whining that the features they wanted didn't make it "help the product"? It won't. They are obviously not looking for pointless whining, they are looking for feedback on the actual version they released!


@Gundamdriver: what, because it doesn't add the features you won't, "not much is improved"? Laughable

What? It is not expected to have new features? Cone on, read the wishlist.

Opera Mini 4.1 has been released for a long time, I think it is normal for someone to expect new things in new release?

If no features are added, I do expect there are speed or stability improvement. Today I spent some time on reading RSS on Google Reader, when I tried to visit some articles posted on Digg, server timeout occured frequently, and I think the case is worse than OM 4.1. Do you call this an improvement?

I thanked the Opera team, but I just think they need to work harder on it.

Seconding requests for fully functional Facebook links and support for the new Hotmail. Oh! And tabs ftw pl0x. But I really appreciate this release .

Originally posted by _deXter_:

I'm pleased to report that 4.2 is working great on Esmertec Jbed/Windows Mobile 5/i-mate PDAL.

im also using the jbed, with wm6, do you know how to get videos playing mine doesn't seem to work

I love opera

Originally posted by Marike79:

Originally posted by _deXter_:

I'm pleased to report that 4.2 is working great on Esmertec Jbed/Windows Mobile 5/i-mate PDAL.

im also using the jbed, with wm6, do you know how to get videos playing mine doesn't seem to work

I love opera

What happens when you click on a link?
In my phone, it opens pocket IE with a link called "stream". Clicking it opens the video in my media player (CorePlayer). Maybe you should try installing CorePlayer if you don't have it already...

Hi wil the lg ku990 be supported in the final release. Really annoying not being able to use the full om. Thanks guys

Originally posted by _deXter_:

What happens when you click on a link?
In my phone, it opens pocket IE with a link called "stream". Clicking it opens the video in my media player (CorePlayer). Maybe you should try installing CorePlayer if you don't have it already...

i've done the above but it doesn't want to play in my windows media player i'll go and find the coreplayer you are talking about thanx

i love opera mini great browser the best

Hello I'm using Opera Mini 4.2 Beta on Nokia 6630 based on S60 2nd Edition FP2 platform,but Opera Mini still opens Real Player to play videos from Web (m.youtube.com). Is there any solution so that Opera Mini will itself play videos?
Also please try to add Tabbed Browsing in next beta of Opera Mini or atleast add transfer window as in Opera Desktop so that we can browse web pages without having to wait for Opera Mini to complete the transfer first.Also option to 'pause&resume' transfers will be nice to see.

4.2 Doesn't sync RSS feeds from Opera Link, like 4.1 does.

Youtube videos doesn't work on my SE W910i. When I select a video I arrive at a black screen with VCR controls and the text "video" in the bottom left corner. No video or image is visible.

I still prefer using Opera Mini 3.1 because of the tab browsing feature.

Opera Mini 4.2
Fonts, I am so irritated on the font size.
When "mobile view" is not activated, the font size is too large for my 240x320 screen. When I set it to 'small' font size at the settings, it became too small.. :-( How about creating another font size option and change the 'small' to 'extra small' then between extra small and medium there is small. Now I will choose 'small'

My suggestions:
Please enable also tables on mobile view and gif animations too..
Thanks... Opera Mini browsers still the best for me and my Nokia 5310 XM.

Hey guys! Have you ever tried the UCWEB Browser? Try it and see the difference.. Loaded with different features. The speed.. Nothing compares.. I'm disappointed with the OM 4.2,almost nothing's changed with the previous version..

Originally posted by eskoj:

Hi, first I wanna thank for the best S60 browser to date, (I've also used Opera as my main pc browser for years now). My concern is that what happened to landscape mode? Theres no landscape enable/disable at Settings-screen anymore like in previous version im using (4.1.11320). Im using Nokia N82 and landscape worked before like a charm.

Anybody...? Landscape problems..?

Thanks for the 4.2 update. Working well so far on my BB Pearl 8130. Youtube videos pass nicely through the BB browser to the media player now.

Originally posted by eskoj:

Originally posted by eskoj:

Hi, first I wanna thank for the best S60 browser to date, (I've also used Opera as my main pc browser for years now). My concern is that what happened to landscape mode? Theres no landscape enable/disable at Settings-screen anymore like in previous version im using (4.1.11320). Im using Nokia N82 and landscape worked before like a charm.

Anybody...? Landscape problems..?

Sorry, but we're working on it. It seems to have disappeared for some strange reason. You could just flip your phone. That apparently works.

Originally posted by Erroneus:

4.2 Doesn't sync RSS feeds from Opera Link, like 4.1 does.

-1. It syncs feeds without issues.

Originally posted by ManneS:

... you could just flip your phone.

That's extremely low tech, though, ManneS. Can you imagine the lawsuit if he damaged his wrist?!

hi friends

i have just downloaded the opera mini 4.2 version and it is working superbly in my nokia e-51.

thanks for a quality product tha helps me to chek my mails etc while on the move.

liza clair
india

greeaaaaatt . but the text on the extreme right side is still hidden from my w550i screen

while entering passwords using 4.1 after entering each letter, the letters used to turn into '*' but in 4.2 this is not happening
thanks for the change theme option

THANK U OPERA TEAM 4A GREAT FEATURE I JUST FOUND IN OM4.2!!

its a new option in opera-mini server-side configuration page..now we can see perfectly pages that use complex scripts (languages like chinese, arabic, hindi, etc.) on any mobile even if the phone doesnt support that font.
type 'opera:config' in address bar. in the page that opens, select 'yes' for the option - use bitmap fonts for complex scripts. click 'save' button at the and of page. now enjoy pages in any language!!

thank you OM team once again for this feature!!

NOTE:- although its a server-side feature and i dunno 4how long it has been provided so it will work even in older versions of opera-mini. and it will increase the data-usage while viewing pages with complex scripts. so people with limited data-plan should use it with care.

Originally posted by jbpseudo:

Originally posted by Erroneus:

4.2 Doesn't sync RSS feeds from Opera Link, like 4.1 does.

-1. It syncs feeds without issues.

-10000000 to you.. whatever that means..

Anyway they kinda fuck up on this one. I had all my feeds in 4.1, which were synced and then I installed 4.2 and synced it, to realise my feeds weren't synced. Now i realized that the 4.2 deleted all my feeds in Opera Link and replaced them with the default feeds from 4.2. So now I don't have my feeds in 4.2 (which i never had), but also neither in 4.1, since 4.2 deleted my feeds from Opera link.

Thanks Opera....

what about indian languagses support?

Appears that Airtel( India) has blocked this 4.2beta too just like 4.1, for their 'net on phone' users. Though the service works well with OM 3. There is no such problem with bsnl, wap or gprs.

Originally posted by yagyik:

Appears that Airtel( India) has blocked this 4.2beta too just like 4.1, for their 'net on phone' users.

The beta and all other previous 4.x versions use the same server.

Originally posted by Erroneus:

Originally posted by jbpseudo:

Originally posted by Erroneus:

4.2 Doesn't sync RSS feeds from Opera Link, like 4.1 does.

-1. It syncs feeds without issues.

-10000000 to you.. whatever that means..

Anyway they kinda fuck up on this one. I had all my feeds in 4.1, which were synced and then I installed 4.2 and synced it, to realise my feeds weren't synced. Now i realized that the 4.2 deleted all my feeds in Opera Link and replaced them with the default feeds from 4.2. So now I don't have my feeds in 4.2 (which i never had), but also neither in 4.1, since 4.2 deleted my feeds from Opera link.

Thanks Opera....

-1E12

My feeds transferred correctly and work well in 4.2. Perhaps its a phone issue, have you reported a bug.

I haven't found any problems with 4.2 yet. My only comment is that the loading/progress bar is an odd colour in most of the skins. Especially the red bar in the Black skin. A very minor point though.

we've waited for so long but the new great features are only the 'cool' skins, a nice 'fast' new server, and video streaming.
well, how about
the multiple tabs? copy-paste? download manager? and all the really possible features that have been written in the big wishlist thread?

but thank you for this version release. this improvements is better than no improvement at all.

ManneS: Ok, big thanks for the reply, its nice to know it isn't just me. Keep on the good work guys!

my OperaMini is shining up with the new Silver skin (I'd love to find an Electric Blue, tough!)

just my impression?! ,

seems more fast connecting

a better memory management, even in my low memory phone, not an OOM message yet

thanks

p.s. "where is Flash support"

Originally posted by yagyik:

Appears that Airtel( India) has blocked this 4.2beta too just like 4.1, for their 'net on phone' users. Though the service works well with OM 3. There is no such problem with bsnl, wap or gprs.

I am on airtel Mobile Office plan. Never had a problem with any versions of OM. What plan are you on?

no no...i am nop user and using om all versions easily. they have only blocked teashark for me.

Hi there guys. new to forums - been using Mini 4.1 for some time now.

I just went to 4.2 and not sure if this has been mentioned, but it does not save my settings preferences.

I will change it to Font - Small and turn mobile view on and nothing happens. When I go out of mini and back in, neither is checked.

I am on a BB curve 8310 running OS 4.5.0.93

We need an option to choose how media links are passed outside of Opera Mini.

On my archaic LG8500, I can stream YouTube when the media player is started with the built-in browser through .

With Opera Mini 4.1, I can remove the http:// proxy part manually after it is forwarded to the built-in browser, and view the stream. With the new 4.2, the media player fails to start by Opera Mini, and the link is also unavailable to the built-in browser.

An option to choose how links are passed can easily resolve the problem.

Dear Opera team, please, have a look at new version of GMail for mobile phones.
They made Exit button to minimize application by default in Java version.

I have Opera running in background on my Sonyericsson K610 almost all the time.

It is always very annoing (with any Java application) to specificaly say on my device
that I dont wont to Close App but Minimize.

Thanks!