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Opera Mini 4 beta 2

Beta 2 is out. Enjoy!

Here's the changelog since the first beta:

  • Added encryption
  • Added multi search, with shortcut: '#'+'9'
  • Added Create search from form field
  • Added Landscape mode, shortcut: '*'+'#'
  • Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
  • Added content folding
  • Simplified setup process
  • Improved image quality
  • Improved fit to width mode rendering
  • Simplified settings page
  • Added native blackberry menu
  • Allow Blackberries to accept the EULA via the menu.
  • Fixed decoding of images that were skipped when partially above the window
  • Added clock adjustment setting
  • Changing the font size via settings now clears the document cache
  • Now saves full screen mode between sessions
  • Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
  • Delayed randomess gathering for secure connections until first real page request


Tomorrow...The next step in mobile browsing

Comments

KujaIXKuja-IX Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:26:43 PM

Thank you for your hard work guys smile

I love the landcape view cheers

Santeri Piippoaleksanteri Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:29:23 PM

Any possibility to get a version for Nokia 2600? smile

Taylor Simpsontjsimpson Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:35:03 PM

I love it, however it seems the key combo for landscape does nothing on a Blackberry 7100.

Eddie LopezEddie_Lopez Thursday, August 30, 2007 4:43:50 PM

Landscape also doesn't work on Blackberry 8100 (Pearl)

Love the BB menu integration!

Alexwunage Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:24:54 PM

Landscape, i was waiting for this feature. Works fine on my SE K800i. Thank you guys. up

Seji Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:25:06 PM

That Beta rocks! And landscape mode is sweet. :)

Chetto Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:46:16 PM

Hi,

when downloading via WAP I get the high-res icon, but when using the Nokia Application installer I just get a few pixels as icon.
Beside that...great! :-)

theoddbod Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:54:13 PM

This is much better up. No crashes at all, and only one cookie problem in 3 hours smile

tinhoy Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:56:16 PM

I've already logged in on my phone (Samsung A900) with OM4b2. I'm trying to add a comment to this page, but it keeps on giving me a "Login failed" message. What's going on?

Anyway, I was trying to comment that that's a very nice list of features. Landscape mode rocks!

Matt Coxcoxy Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:56:18 PM

Downloading...

PS: Vote this story 'up the vine' at Newsvine.

Wrinkly Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:20:48 PM

A very nifty solution to those who deplored the Google removal. Nice to see extra small font again. Predictive text problems seem to be fixed. Landscape view probably ok for right-handers, but not the truly-gifted. Browser seems faster. Can we have RSS feeds next, please? Thanks a lot

redpok Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:28:23 PM

Tried this beta 2 on my Nokia 3230 and got pretty much the same results as with the first beta:

After starting the browser it gets stuck on "Installing" and after a while it freezes the _whole phone_! Have to remove the battery to reset. The previous beta also got stuck "loading" and resulted the same full device freeze. sad

It's quite funny since never before has _any_ program froze my phone this bad...not java or native symbian app...at least the "power" button has always helped me out but not with opera mini 4 beta... Shame, I would love to test these new features..

gun Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:31:43 PM

It crashes when I try to open the login page of my bank. sad

Ilya Birmanilyabirman Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:42:02 PM

Thanks for you work.

Nokia 6230 (not i). On previous tested Opera Minis (3, 4b1) small font didn’t display cyrillics, so I had to use medium font. 4b2 does not display cyrillics even in medium, so I have to use large, which is too bad for 128x128 display. Any chance this will get fixed back in the final? Thanks.

Also, how can I install back 4 beta 1 for now? Because I had no problems with it and there’s no use of landscape on 128x128 as you may have guessed :-)

MarianneManneS Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:52:56 PM

BlackBerry devices can't handle landscape mode, unfortunately.

Bencalai_benc Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:40:23 PM

This version is way improved than the previous Beta 1; and so far there are no major problems with my Nokia 6230i wink

Madiseestlane Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:52:19 PM

Crashes if clicking Accept after install.
Using Siemens C75.

LaliLali19871014 Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:28:29 PM

I can not try the beta 2, but with simulator i found a bug:
In the simulator a hungarian specify character: "ő", can not see:
Here is a screenshot: http://opera.extra.hu/e107_plugins/autogallery/Gallery/Kepek/opera_mini_4_beta/indexsimulator.jpg
Or see the www.fn.hu, with mini 4 beta 2

~ Callya ~Callya Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:51:58 PM

cheers Thank you so much for all of the hard work guys... So far so good:up:, i'm really impressed:cheers:

Investor Friday, August 31, 2007 1:21:47 AM

WOW... brilliant... simply the best, better than all the rest party

A bug ?...
Load page in landscape, then switch to portrait. Now one got real "desktop view", with abit horizontal scrolling. However, it doesn't stay that way. When key 5 is pressed to zoom in and out again, page view changes back to portrait...When clicking NO to "refit" page, OM4 should respect the user wish...

Sebhelyesfarku Friday, August 31, 2007 3:49:47 AM

"Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts" What does this mean? In full page preview still every text is just rows of pixels, even the biggest headlines. The Safari-based mobile browsers show readable headlines in page preview. In this form it's just me too gimmick.

MisterNobody Friday, August 31, 2007 4:18:15 AM

Please return "Content folding" select, I don't prefer this feature because it hides impotant content on my favorite sites and i have to open each list again and again.

Amarendra kumardost1234amar Friday, August 31, 2007 3:06:08 PM

smile great smile what can i say, it iz amazing i m loving it.

Ameerameer1234567890 Friday, August 31, 2007 7:28:39 PM

How to get feeds on OM4 beta 2.
Add a bookmark with the address "feed://start//" without quotes. Give it a title like "Feeds" or "RSS". Voila! You just got feeds on OM4 beta 2.
To subscribe to a feed, follow the feed url and select subscribe at the top of the page.

5pteron Friday, August 31, 2007 11:42:15 PM

im in love with this beta!!!

Dennis-Hawks Saturday, September 1, 2007 11:04:54 AM

Yes, I also confirm this bug with medium fonts unability to display cyrillic characters on Nokia 2865. Have to use large fonts instead. But my screen is 160x128 in landscape mode :-P

Anbananban Saturday, September 1, 2007 5:16:17 PM

Great job! landscape mode is great! I use a motorola v550, the small text font quality needs 2 be improved.

BlacksheepDirewolf Sunday, September 2, 2007 3:19:01 AM

Awesome! Best Opera Mini yet! So far has worked flawlessly on our slow Moto V635s. Kudos to Opera Mini team up

ImaYam Sunday, September 2, 2007 1:24:24 PM

Crashes way too many times on my blackberry pearl (8100) where can I download the first beta???!??

francispsycho Monday, September 3, 2007 12:19:47 PM

I've had the weekend to play with it and kick the tires - and I think it's pretty good. I just switched over to using OM4B2 as my primary web browser. Seems relatively stable using the Esmertec JVM on my WM6 T-Mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur). I do get occasional freezes, mainly after switching between apps on my smartphone and back to the JVM.

The main thing I'd change is on the text entry boxes for URLs and form data. I'd make one of the smartkey options "OK" and the other the list of other options such as "formulate search, URL history, clear". Most of the time, folks will likely want to hit "OK" rather than "clear". I've accidentally cleared out text input by hitting the "clear" softkey.

All in all, a virtual round of beer to y'all. Nice job, everyone! smile

Oshadiohshady Wednesday, September 5, 2007 4:49:09 PM

aleksanteri: IIRC the Nokia 2600 doesn't support Java or even GPRS...

All is well on my Nokia E65. But on my SE W810i, the fonts are just horrendous sad and I'm afraid it's not Opera Mini's fault either. Anyway, if you guys can do something about the fonts in the menus, would be much appreciated.

Never imagined that a midlet could be so useful bigsmile

juliebrandon Wednesday, September 5, 2007 6:23:27 PM

Would love to give feedback, but the wretched feedback form (www.operamini.com/beta/feedback) doesn't work on my phone (LG U880). If this is common, it's going to give skewed statistics with the feedback form. In fact, I sometimes got similar errors using IE6 and my Country/Phone-Make/Phone-Model, so it could actually be the feedback form playing up.

Anyway-

HAPPINESSES:
Fit-to-width mode compatibility and rendering has improved. I use opera mini as my primary browser, so YAY. Still prefer using fit-to-width mode for volume browsing and reading, but the full mode is useful for compatibility with some sites that just aren't useable on fit-to-width. Tiny font is back, encryption is back. This version is now useable -- although I still have to return to opera mini 3 due to bugs.

BUGS:
1. Can't give feedback using the feedback form isn't (on a LG U880 anyway.)
2. www.google.com- After searching, with fit to width mode, can't select buttons for subsequent search results, so am stuck with just the first page of results.
3. Images aren't selectable on fit-to-width mode.
4. Landscape mode only works on top 6/8ths of screen (on LG U880 at least), the rest is left corrupt.
5. Some drop-down-multi-choice forms get corrupted with javascript-style refreshes, and can make forms impossible to validly submit (including the feedback form.)
6. Sometimes, very rarely, text-box form data gets interpreted as opera mini as a new URL to go to -- very odd, but fortunately very rare. This seems to be a state error, opera getting into a confused state, as things tend to go progressively more awry once this has happened, and need to eventually exit opera mini and restart it.

ANNOYANCES:
Please don't ignore or downgrade the functionality of the fit-to-width mode... for those of us die hards using opera mini as our main browser, realistically, for volume browsing and reading, fit-to-width/SSR mode is the only way to go. I feel that fit-to-width mode lacked a bit of basic testing... I mean, seriously guys, didn't you try www.google.com on it before releasing, being unable to select the next/subsequent search pages is a bit of an big, gleaming, obvious, bug? ;-)

SUGGESTIONS:
REALLY need a way to back up the bookmarks!

Way to go guys -- you seem to be making the impossible possible with Opera Mini. bigsmile

sonutn Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:22:43 AM

I'm not able to install the beta 2 on my Blackberry 8700g. I tried after uninstalling the ver 3.1.8. I've OS 4.2.

The new beta looks terrific.

Thanks.

poljan Saturday, September 8, 2007 6:34:40 AM

Hi Team! im using Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 on my Nokia N70, great its like a pocket pc or personal computer i used. but where is the appearance of 'Cookies??? everytime i go to Yahoo i can't log in anymore! everytime i save the preperences of Google it sey that 'Warning your Cookies is disabled' where i can manage or set the cookies to enabled setting? the cookies is missing or can not work? pls help me what can i do to my Opera Mini 4 Beta 2? pls give me a advice team. Thanks

poljan Saturday, September 8, 2007 6:34:41 AM

Hi Team! im using Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 on my Nokia N70, great its like a pocket pc or personal computer i used. but where is the appearance of 'Cookies??? everytime i go to Yahoo i can't log in anymore! everytime i save the preperences of Google it sey that 'Warning your Cookies is disabled' where i can manage or set the cookies to enabled setting? the cookies is missing or can not work? pls help me what can i do to my Opera Mini 4 Beta 2? pls give me a advice team. Thanks

tinhoy Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:22:49 PM

Cookies are STILL not saving for me. Anyone know where to get OM4b1?

allruiz Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:06:21 PM

I want my cookies back :-(

KYrenKYren Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:04:21 AM

up I'm sure that only Opera Mini team will create a mobile browser that will have all the capabilities of desktop browsers.

neilp02 Sunday, September 16, 2007 4:13:03 AM

Just loaded Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 on my Palm Tungsten T3.
Have had to do some resets at times, but thats nothing unusual as I have used and still use WebPro, Xiino and
IPanelWireless on this handheld. I know it sounds strange to use so many different browsers, but actually, I was using the WebPro browser about 95% of the time as I
could access and do most of what I needed to do with it, which included internet banking. It has some shortcomings too, however it did allow me to access my internet banking website until a few weeks ago to my displeasure. This is when, I started searching for another browser that I could use to successfully access my internet banking website. IPanelWireless will access it, but I really don't like the screen features as well and it is kind of slow, but better than nothing. So I did find the Opera Mini program and have version 3 & version 4 on my system. I do like the program and there undoubtedly could be some other things added, but it is very close to being a replacement for many of the other handheld browsers out there. I guess, what I would like to see changed in a future version is the ability to be able to save the webpages as WebPro does, either internally in the program or by exporting to another program such as Palms MemoPad. This would be nice as one
could review the previous webpage for information that may have been overlooked when the session was online. So
I do appreciate the hard work on this new version, but I am in agreement with the other posts I have read, that there still are some changes that could be made to make this product a superior browser to all the others that are out there. Will be looking forward to new changes and congratulations for a job well done.




thabisyo Tuesday, September 18, 2007 5:38:21 PM

thabisyo

lemonX Monday, October 22, 2007 3:56:34 PM

I am not happy with this at all guys. This is the first version of Opera Mini that does not load at all on my Nokia 6020. I am greeted with an "invalid application" error.

Don't want this happening on too many older phones on the final release or you will lose alot of userbase!

enaNKH Tuesday, October 30, 2007 11:08:40 PM

enang_gembel

AlanStrifeAlan Friday, May 9, 2008 4:13:36 PM

Can anyone give me the link or address to download opera mini 4 beta 2 ,thx for da help

AlanStrifeAlan Friday, May 9, 2008 4:13:49 PM

Can anyone give me the link or address to download opera mini 4 beta 2 ? thx for da help

H82typ Friday, May 9, 2008 4:34:16 PM

Check your pm's StrifeAlan

Hello5000 Friday, July 10, 2009 4:56:44 PM

The landscape mode doesn't work for my blackberry curve. And when I go to settings I don't see landscape mode. How do I get landscape mode? Does it work for blackberries?

Hello5000 Friday, July 10, 2009 4:57:45 PM

Please answer

Anbananban Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:48:01 AM

This is the wrong topic as you are most likely using opera mini 4.2 for blackbery. I suggest you go to the opera mini forum and search for topics dealing with blackberry. If there is none then create a topic for yor issue. also you can file a report if yor issue is not resolved by going to menu and settings, help then bug report.

Infinity and Beyond1nFinity865 Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:12:36 AM

Awesome - absolutely love the new interface and the tabbed browsing!! Keep it up!

Babban kumarBabban20 Sunday, April 11, 2010 9:31:09 AM

Give the link to download operamini 4 beta 2.
I have operamini 4.2

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