Opera Mini 5.1 for Android is here!

By Marian Hmarianh. Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:00:25 AM

Today we released Opera Mini 5.1 for Android phones, less than 1 week after the release of Opera Mini 5.1 for Java phones!

What's new in Opera Mini 5.1 for Android?
  • 96 languages are now supported in the user interface.
  • Improved page layout on high-resolution screens.
  • Improved kinetic scrolling.
  • Opera Mini can now be set as the default browser.
  • Automatically save browsing sessions if Opera Mini is killed by the system while in the background. Your session is restored if Opera is re-opened within 60 minutes.
  • Full-screen now uses the whole screen.

Download Opera Mini directly to your Android phone for free from the Android Market, or at m.opera.com. For more information, visit http://www.opera.com/mobile/.

As always, we welcome your feedback here in our forum, and please report any bugs in our bug report wizard. Thanks!

Regards,
The Opera Mini team

Opera Mini 5.1 released today!Testers wanted: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Symbian/S60

Comments

ZBARTA GABRIELSAGRID Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:02:48 AM

cool

illithidillithid2003 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:14:14 AM

Nice, it's good to know that Opera supports the Android users

dualbore Wednesday, July 14, 2010 7:19:11 AM

Originally posted by operamini:

Automatically save browsing sessions if Opera Mini is killed by the system while in the background. Your session is restored if Opera is re-opened within 60 minutes.


great, thanks a lot for this, this will make me use Opera on my mobile much more often, curiously at a time where 10.6 scared me away from it on desktop systems. smile

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:24:35 AM

It's great news! Opera Mini final for Android! yes

Aux Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:32:07 AM

A very dissappointing release - all the troublesome stuff left inside.

HyaeneLeipzigTinoSLE Wednesday, July 14, 2010 9:20:14 AM

very good yes

dupel Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:39:49 AM

Large font isnt large - its HUGE. And medium is too small to comfortably view it (in fact, i think it is the same as small).

Apart from that pretty good. I'd say that appart from some sitespecific bugs its pretty much perfect =)

NicolasNickko Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:39:51 AM

Please, add the share function in a future release.

prd3 Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:41:35 AM

Originally posted by Aux:

A very dissappointing release - all the troublesome stuff left inside.


What are you trolling about? They fixed some major problems in this release. You are just insane if you think they can fix everything right away.

Thomas MartinThMartin Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:10:51 PM

Main reason i don't use Opera on Android because of missing share funcion. My standard browser on PC.

CharlieBAMAToNE Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:57:42 PM

Originally posted by Nickko:

Please, add the share function in a future release.

Originally posted by ThMartin:

Main reason i don't use Opera on Android because of missing share funcion. My standard browser on PC.

+1+1+1+1

That's one of the only reasons I still use the native Chrome browser.

markellse Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:26:20 PM

Opera Mini is good on Android, but there seems no way to use the tremendous keyboard shortcuts, which make it a dream. Or am I wrong? Is there any way to get the virtual keyboard to appear?

tomassplatch Wednesday, July 14, 2010 3:54:15 PM

thanks a lot!
Working fine!

jrwaltb Wednesday, July 14, 2010 4:56:42 PM

its really amazing..its great that's opera can be my mobile browser...I think it would be cool to offer offer opera plugins for other browsers that link to opera mini. Bookmark sync is still a problem that I think opera may have solved.

SEMW Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:56:39 PM

Brilliant! Especially the ability to be used as a default browser - no more news for operabridge.

One question, though - why on Earth does opera Link still not sync bookmarks?

Fabio Palliniflitz Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:11:08 AM

I don't know if its been already answered but there are any technical limitation to not implement pinch to zoom in Opera Mini (Android and iOS)?

Aux Friday, July 16, 2010 7:52:28 AM

Moderator edit: Trolling and foul language removed.

Lobol080 Friday, July 16, 2010 3:31:36 PM

great release smile would it be possible to have different Speed Dial links for Desktop and Mobile with the same account?

btw.: cool that "pinch to zoom" finaly works, or at least it seems so... but it's quite... FAST!

Aux Friday, July 16, 2010 8:17:58 PM

Off-topic comment removed by moderator.

QasimQasibr Monday, July 19, 2010 10:07:24 AM

Opera Mini's much faster on Windows Mobile because it's a native/compiled app, rather than an interpreted one.

I really wish Opera develops compiled/native versions of Mini for all smartphone platforms because this would greatly improve the user experience of a sizable and important segment of Opera's userbase. There are things like setting Mini as the default browser(as is now possible with this version for android), or access the Internet without annoying Java popups, which isn't possible if the app isn't native. I hope they do a version for Symbian, 'cos the iPhone, winMo, and now android, are already covered.

Before all the fanboys tell me Opera's already got a native version here, I'm talking about Opera MINI, not Opera Mobile.

Fabian DWar10ck Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:12:51 AM

I'm getting frustrated with Opera mini, because I really love the speed when I only have GPRS but usability is horrible. What where you thinking when you implemented pinch-to-zoom with only two zoom-levels?
Why is there no option to change the User Agent so I don't get these ultra ugly mobile "optimized" pages? Why can't I click on anything without zooming in first?

Cat Arriolalillyanne Wednesday, July 21, 2010 5:27:22 AM

My SE X10i restarts by itself after updating to OM 5.1. I also keep getting prompts to choose between default and OM browsers despite setting the standard Webkit browser as default. I like OM mainly for the Feeds feature but would rather keep Webkit as my default browser.

So what's up with the endless prompt?

Secondly, I prefer the font sizes of the beta (already mentioned in a previous comment). Large is really huge and medium is too small.

prd3 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:49:28 PM

Originally posted by War10ck:

I'm getting frustrated with Opera mini, because I really love the speed when I only have GPRS but usability is horrible. What where you thinking when you implemented pinch-to-zoom with only two zoom-levels?


Two zoom levels makes more sense than constantly having to adjust it.

Also, Opera Mini needs to work on slower phones, so multiple zoom levels are completely unreasonable to expect there.

Aux Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:49:11 PM

Originally posted by prd3:

Two zoom levels makes more sense than constantly having to adjust it.

Also, Opera Mini needs to work on slower phones, so multiple zoom levels are completely unreasonable to expect there.


I think Mini for smartphones can easily handle relayouting without contacting server. I hope this feature will be implemented in future releases. This matters, because in smart-phone world we have a lot of different screen sizes and physical resolutions. It is much easier to live with two zoom levels in feature phone world, because Opera Mini is simply the only way to get to the web and resolutions does not differ so much too.

Kenbu~Kenbu Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:19:04 AM

nice it was better than 5.0,
but
ill still stick to 4.2 because of the landscape for 5130
i always browse on landscape, because wider view is better

flipperfly Saturday, July 24, 2010 1:25:45 PM

Great browser. Sadly the font size "medium" is too small and almost no difference from "small". Using HTC Hero Android 2.1. No problem for earlier beta version. Please do correct, or can you advise how to roll back to beta version. worried

leo310 Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:52:31 PM

almost perfect fast browser but pls fix the font bug almost not usable or to small or far to huge.

knarfsays Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:48:09 PM

using Opera mini 5.1 on my cliq xt and has been a blessing. thanks so much. its fast! and correctly auto fits context unlike the stock browser that Moto Blur has android 1.5.

my biggest issue is the lack of a share link. love the long press feaure, could you add share page on long press context results.

or add copy link address on long press on a link. ala chrome desktop.

finally I want to add that I love the mouse hand for navigating.

thanks again for your hard work.

mustofa-CHzamahsari Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:09:18 PM

the fun and cool

padovaraj Monday, August 2, 2010 5:29:52 AM

Pl. help me to change or edit my selected short cut in 5.1. It's really superb.

Rafael Luikrafaelluik Monday, August 2, 2010 8:06:57 AM

Originally posted by padovaraj:

Pl. help me to change or edit my selected short cut in 5.1. It's really superb.

keep holding the button (or screen if it's touchscreen) until the edit option is shown.

vivyvysakhtb Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:20:52 PM

The opera 5.X series not good for N70,N72,N90 mobiles. Its respond is too much slow with option selection, page cacheing, etc. In my openion,Opera 4.2 is very gud tan 5.X series for s60 v2 phone. How can i fix these problm with s60 v2? Wre can i get propr help?
I am an opera mini and opera pc user for 7 yrs. But now opera moble is lagging as compard to otr browsers? Why? We want opera with a gud quality

vivyvysakhtb Tuesday, August 3, 2010 5:24:26 PM

The font and user interface in opera 5.X is exclent

Durgeshrohitdj1 Friday, September 3, 2010 6:42:34 AM

Hey cen download 5.1ver

Luis Costadarkphoenixpt Thursday, October 7, 2010 5:46:52 PM

I've been searching for ages.

Where is the default Saved Pages directory for Opera Mini 5.1 ( HTC Desire )?

Can't find it anywhere.

No, I don't have as Advanced Menu option to set/change the directory.

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