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Opera Mini - in 1280*1024!

Saturday, 29. March 2008, 16:49:46

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Ever wanted to use Opera Mini as your primary browser? You probably didn't, but for those with slow connections it might make surfing the net a whole new experience!

Imagine you're in some place where you can get 56k connection or worse just GPRS but you really need to check out some stuff on the internet. Using Opera Mini on your mobile phone might be a hassle because text input takes ages, so what do you do?
You just use Opera Mini on your PC! Proper text input, no more scrolling due to fullscreen display and still way less traffic (and thus faster page loading) than with a normal browser.

So how do you do this?

Downloading and installing the software you need:

go to http://microemu.org/
download the latest release (you can pick the snapshot as well, doesn't really matter)
unzip the archive on your PC
Download the Opera Mini .jar and .jad files from operamini.com

Starting and configuring the software:

double-click "microemulator.jar" to run it. If that doesn't work you'll have to type "java -jar microemulator.jar" on console. (Please note you need to have JRE installed for this to work
go to "Options > Select device", click "Add...", navigate to "microemulator\devices" and select "microemu-device-resizable.jar"
select the "Resizable device" profile you just added and click "Set as default"
click the "Resize" button in lower right to set the size you want
go to "File > Open JAD" and choose the Opera Mini jad you previously downloaded
"Opera Mini" now appears in the list of apps you can start, click the "Start" button to launch it

you can now browse the web using Opera Mini on your PC, in whatever resolution you want!

Opera Mini on 1280*1024

Thanks to "Mr Nobody" from opera.perm.ru for this nice idea

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Comments

Works nicely, even on Linux

By Ramunas, # 29. March 2008, 17:02:17

That's pretty cool.

By YtseJam, # 29. March 2008, 17:50:00

By philry4n, # 29. March 2008, 18:52:05

Pretty cool. I'd think the best solution to the problem is to disable images and just use a desktop build, but then browsing isn't as fun as with a mobile browser.

By IceArdor, # 30. March 2008, 09:03:59

that's pretty fun!

By Maulkin, # 30. March 2008, 13:37:30

Try middle mouse scrolling through the page, it scrolls through all the links, hitting middle click navigates there!

By shoust, # 30. March 2008, 19:04:41

It emulates what scroll does in phones. I got a w950i that does that

By philry4n, # 31. March 2008, 05:45:08

Hey! Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing

I have a question. How do you make page centered? Because when I go to the opera.com it just cuts the right side of the page and doesn't stretch it (like it is shown on the screenshot).

Thanks in advance

By DeeSeMiX, # 31. March 2008, 16:19:37

How do you make page centered? Because when I go to the opera.com it just cuts the right side of the page and doesn't stretch it (like it is shown on the screenshot).

make the window larger. Opera.com uses advanced selectors to determine the screen size and uses different styles depending on that

By larskl, # 31. March 2008, 17:03:24

Ok, I found the problem. I shouldn't have to disable "fit to screen" option in opera:config menu. Thanks anyway!

By DeeSeMiX, # 31. March 2008, 17:05:55

Ah, fine tool.
Thanks for the informations.

By GwenDragon, # 1. April 2008, 11:46:25

I am stuck right here :go to "Options > Select device", click "Add...", navigate to "microemulator\devices" and select "microemu-device-resizable.jar" When I click add I don't see "microemulator\devices" or where to find it or to get it?

By JM.BLADE, # 1. April 2008, 17:23:49

I think I have demo version? I tried to open this file and wouldn't open "microemulator-2.0.2-sources.tar". I do have jre so I don't know what the problem is?

By JM.BLADE, # 1. April 2008, 17:49:33

download the executable, not the sources. .tar is an archive, you have to extract the files before running them

By larskl, # 1. April 2008, 21:44:35

Figured it out.

I had to find a trial software to unzip a gz file. Works very well Larskl. Thanks for your help.

By JM.BLADE, # 3. April 2008, 00:25:55

Pribada en Ubuntu y funcionando 100%!!!
*Tested on Ubuntu and working 100!!!

By renesis, # 9. April 2008, 02:38:26

oh man. thank you very much for this tutorial. currently I am running OM 4.1 beta signed. Everything is running smoothly. One thing is missing a little bit - proxy support for accessing network from MIDP emulator.

By trizzo, # 9. April 2008, 19:03:13

that's a job for the microemu team i think although i'd like that as well

By philry4n, # 10. April 2008, 00:23:42

By rezadotcom, # 11. April 2008, 18:53:00

Piece of advice:
You may have allocated jar files to some other software on you PC. To start microemulator.jar you may need to click the secondary mouse button and select to open it in Java platform.

By serola, # 17. April 2008, 07:53:43

is there any way i can browse using my company proxy server, i am not able to browse using Opera Mini. I have enabled proxy in Java then too its not getting connected. Internet is working fine through IE and Firefox.

By ablenwill, # 2. May 2008, 14:21:34

when i try to run "microemulator.jar" it opens it in powerarc soft.........wht should i do?????

By itsshiva, # 11. May 2008, 06:05:11

@ Ittshiva - Read my previous post above.

By serola, # 11. May 2008, 08:32:11