Haavard

Opera Mini 5 Beta: Tips and Tricks

Wednesday, 16. September 2009, 11:33:36

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Opera Mini 5 Beta is finally out!

As you can see, a lot has changed since Opera Mini 4. Here are a few tips on how to get more out of the new version.

1) The first thing you should know about is the long hold. Whether you are using a touchscreen or not, holding down for a moment when pressing something like a link or a Speed Dial entry (instead of pressing and releasing immediately), offers various options depending on what you press, such as:

Edit or clear Speed Dial
Open a link in a new tab
Select text
Copy text
Open image

2) To assign a new Speed Dial, simply press one of the empty slots and type in the address, or choose from the list.

3) The find in page option is in the menu (the button to the right in the touch user interface, or the dropdown below the button toolbar on non-touch phones), along with bookmarks, history, saved pages, settings, and help.

4) The new RSS/newsfeed reader is not available in this beta, but if you want to access the old one, add the address feed:list as a bookmark or Speed Dial.

5) You may be able to copy text from Opera Mini 5 to a different application despite Java not allowing this. To do so, open the Settings, go to Advanced, and disable Inline Editing. You can now copy the text from a page, and paste it into a text input field (such as the search field if none are available on the current page). Editing this text will open the phone's built-in text editor, which might allow you to copy the text from there and to a different application.

6) Non-touch users shouldn't forget the keypad shortcuts. * 1-9 will open a Speed Dial. * up arrow will open a new tab. * down arrow will close a tab, while * left or right arrow will cycle to the left or right tab.

7) Is the lack of T9 predictive texting bothering you? Because Opera Mini is a Java application it can't easily access things like the T9 dictionary on your phone, so it can't support T9 when you are typing inline in forms. If you switch back to the phone's native editor, T9 will work again, but you won't be able to type inline anymore. Disable Inline Editing in the Advanced settings to use the phone's text editor.

Keep in mind that this is a beta version, and there are more surprises in store for you.

So Opera Mini 5 is coming soon...Opera Mini gained more than one user every second in August

Comments

danaleks # 16. September 2009, 12:26

Long hold is difficult to discover. I love the new copy’n’paste, though.

thobi # 16. September 2009, 13:21

nice, but can i change the keyboard layout to german? i'm missing a return button and want a komma "," because it's used that often.

Tamil # 16. September 2009, 14:30

seaempty # 16. September 2009, 16:54

I wish I had read this before submitting a bug report about not being able to type CAPS in the text field

Turned off Inline Editing, and all's well!

lsaplai # 16. September 2009, 16:58

"* up arrow will open a new tab. * down arrow will close a tab, while * left or right arrow will cycle to the left or right tab."

How do you do that on a Blackberry (8310)? We don't have arrows, only the trackball and it doesn't seem to work in combination with the * key.

rolaquir # 16. September 2009, 18:17

in my Nokia 5130 '*' is '#' and '#' is '*'

haavard # 16. September 2009, 20:12

lsaplai: I'm afraid I don't have a Blackberry. You may want to report this in the Opera Mini forum, although the Mini team might already know about it since they have been testing on BB.

Chas4 # 16. September 2009, 22:13

qlue # 16. September 2009, 22:17

Where is the carriage return for the on-screen keyboard?

. This is an amazing beta! :up.

xzzz # 16. September 2009, 22:37

Originally posted by danaleks:

Keep in mind that this is a beta version, and there are more surprises in store for you.

wow!

can't wait..

lsaplai # 16. September 2009, 23:05

Thanks Haavard. I have already opened a thread in the forum to that effect:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=292110&t=1253141837&page=1#comment3119810

Let's hope they add more navigation shortcuts on BB: after all we got a full keyboard!

sandalian # 17. September 2009, 01:53

Surely it consume more memory than previous version. I can't wait to see the final version.

thermalwinter # 17. September 2009, 04:21

and the opera mini team finally disowns the non-touchscreen community.

ZAHEK # 17. September 2009, 05:41

Thanks for tips haavard..

haavard # 17. September 2009, 06:35

Originally posted by thermalwinter:

and the opera mini team finally disowns the non-touchscreen community.

No, there's a UI specifically optimized for phones without a touchscreen. In fact, the keyboard shortcuts are mostly only available for non-touchscreen phones.

sandalian # 17. September 2009, 07:06

Originally posted by haavard:

In fact, the keyboard shortcuts are mostly only available for non-touchscreen phones.

That's rite. I can't use the keyboard shortcut on my touchscreen cellphone.

zeeshan90ali # 17. September 2009, 10:24

On my phone, short press to key 1 also does the same function as long press to centre key
I've encountered following problems
1. History holds a few pages in memory (infact on my W910 only 3 pages) and I've to load them again.
2. The animations are not very smooth
3. When entering address by pressing #1 and searching by pressing #2, the status bar at bottom doesn't show up and I can't tell if page is loading or not.
4. Already missing the option to choose favourite skins
5. On small screen of my W910, the large icons for navigation are annoying. There must be two versions of Opera 5. One for touchscreens with large icons and one for non touch with medium icons.
6. I've been using Opera 5 for 3 hours and it has crashed one time and my phone has restarted one time.
Other major problems that I faced have been already mentioned by others. When I find some new bug, I'll write here.
One question. Do java applications support flash? I once heard about project capachun which intended to unite java and flash.

haavard # 17. September 2009, 10:41

You would be better off reporting problems in the Opera Mini forum. There's nothing I can do about bug reports for Opera Mini. I'm in the Destkop department.

zeeshan90ali # 17. September 2009, 10:45

Oh my! Where is my dictionary.com search engine?
Reporting one more crash
I'm loving to add more and more tabs. By the way is there any limit for maximum tabs?

thobi # 17. September 2009, 10:46

there's no limit set by opera mini. you can have as many tabs as your phone is able to handle.

zeeshan90ali # 17. September 2009, 10:48

Oops! My mistake. Sorry to disturb you.

Tolek24 # 19. September 2009, 17:28

How to use copy/paste on BlackBerry Bold?

greendude # 24. September 2009, 08:49

that long pressing rocks.

yarragav # 26. September 2009, 02:26

first there is no download option in which was there in opera mini 4.2 and this is getting hanged while with no of tabs

kennycable # 26. September 2009, 02:42

What happened to holding down the back button to clear the address on the address bar. Now I have to hold it down until it clears the address by going back to the beginning of the address bar.

bugscout # 28. September 2009, 22:25

blindspott10 # 29. September 2009, 05:57

cool..

Chuckkey69 # 29. September 2009, 14:28

on htc kaiser touchscreen is exactly just that . none of navigation keys have effect

EBeesigomwe # 29. September 2009, 15:44

Dig the tiny fonts! Never seen a better app. Thanks Opera Team!

Nokia N70-1

EBeesigomwe # 29. September 2009, 18:52

How do I know if I have the latest OM5 build. I've checked my opera mini and it's 15650 hifi.

Nokia N70-1

singletree # 11. October 2009, 21:18

I have BB Bold. Downloaded Opera Mini 5 beta. All I can do is open one of the seven spots; one unused.

Please help me to get started to the various functions available.

All I can see when I push Menu on Bold is a horizontal line with 9 spots, left and right arrow, semi circle (does what? I select and nothing happens). After I select the right hand button, close button, it asks if I want to exit.

Newbie Blackberry; extreme, extreme newbie on Opera Mini 5.

I wonder if I downloaded the Blackberry version?

Please kick start me.

singletree

Anonymous # 13. October 2009, 13:06

nagsow writes:

thanks brother.iam worrying about copy paste.now iam clear

illiad # 15. October 2009, 13:38

well it's good to see that some can copy text from Opera Mini 5 to a different application...
Nokia seem to have forgotten this in the 5800??? the 'editor' that comes up has NO WAY to do anything like this!!(I cannot see how to normally access it either..)

Is there any way that the messaging or notes editor could be used??

T9 is only available when you use the alphanum phone keypad, not the proper keyboard options..