First of all we would, again, like to thank all of you who helped us beta testing Opera Mini 4.1. You provided us with a lot of good feedback, and we are now ready to give you the full 4.1 version!
There are no big differences from the beta, but there are a lot of things that have happened behind the surface:
We have fixed a lot of bugs
Minor changes to saving pages
Several adjustments to auto-complete address input and upload/download
BlackBerry devices with old firmware now get Opera Mini 4.1 without JSR-75.
We all hope you enjoy the final version of Opera Mini 4.1!
The Mini Team is now preparing the final version of Opera Mini 4.1. Since the beta we have done more than 150 changes to fix various issues and to ensure that it will run as well as possible on your device. Many of these changes are based directly on feedback from you. Among other things we have adjusted how the “Save Page” function works and also made it possible for BlackBerry users to surf with Wi-Fi. And to the person that reported “Find in page does not work in Bookmarks page”: we have fixed that one as well
We would like to use this opportunity to thank you for the help in the test phase. Without your support we would not have been able to find all the strange issues on all those strange phones. Now, get ready to help spread the word that a new version of the worlds most popular mobile browser has arrived Wolfen video
The Opera Mini 4 servers have been upgraded with quite a few improvements. To begin with the servers should now be nicer to phones that are low on available memory. but what we are are especially pleased with the new feed system and hope you will like it too:
Improved feed (RSS/Atom) viewer to support for bidirectional text and layout. Oh, and it’s faster.
Fixed bug with
Fixed problem with images in
Made sure image maps gets rescaled to fit the screen width.
Fixed problem with page being zoomed in when going to page which is in history.
Fixed problem with some phones with little memory getting too many images.
The server now prioritizes sending images at the top of the document if the phone’s too low on memory to display them all.
And for those of you using the 4.1 beta client:
Downloading of files which require authentication now works (gmail etc).
It’s true! Seriously! (Check the date, it’s not the 1st of April yet!)
A new beta version is going to be released very soon.
Even though we can’t tell you about all the new cool stuff yet, we can reveal that this release will include some improvements much wanted by our users.
Today, some people reported to us that their blog posts where not showing in their calendar. A bit odd of course, except the entire day was missing from the February month. We quickly dropped everything and went right to it. No way, we were going to pretend today never existed.
The fix was twofold, one fix in our frontend code that did its own month representation calculation, and one on the backend which had stuff like if year % 4 && ! year % 100 && year % 400 in it. The solution was to move the calculation to one place, namely a standard third party library available for years and thorougly tested.
This means My Opera now is leap year compliant (at least in the calendar module)! Of course, if you read this tomorrow, (that would be today for you, but then this article is from yesterday), you will only have to wait 4 years till next time. Oh, and if you fire up your time machine and travel to year 1 BC, it won’t show up either. (Which reminds me we have to add a bug report about this feature might be stopping working in 2038).
We have updated the beta1 with a fix for the (very annoying) bug that turned off the notification sounds. The notification bugfix was relatively trivial and had a low risk. We are aware of the other bugs and issues, but these aren’t adressed in this update.
There have been reports of OOM (Out of Memory) problems on some devices. Phil Nickinson over at WMExperts.com have suggested a workaround
to avoid this problem. By changing the location of the folder where Opera stores the cache-files, more memory is available for Opera. Please note that depending on the speed of the memory card, Opera might perform slower and you will probably experience some delays when Opera reads and writes to the cache.
Edit: Please be sure to uninstall the previous beta-version before installing the new one. You can find more detailed instructions in this forum thread
We know that you’re waiting for the upcoming beta of Opera Mobile v9.5, and we’re sorry to keep you waiting. A browser is a complex piece of software and it takes time to put it together. Believe me when I say that we’re just as eager as you to get this browser ready and out the door, but we want it to work properly before we let you play with it.
In the meantime, if you know any talented developers, don’t hesitate to send them our way
EDIT: Don’t worry guys! This is a minor delay.. we had hoped to have the beta released by now, but you will have to wait another couple of weeks (not months).
The third edition of BarCamp Mumbai is scheduled for tomorrow! This one seems to be the largest Barcamp gathering in Mumbai yet. I’m all excited about Mumbai and looking forward to a great day of sessions, debates, meeting new people (and old friends) and probably … ummm … some beer :beer: :yes:
Venue: IIT Mumbai Shailesh J Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) at IIT Bombay Powai, Mumbai - 400076
We have some exciting news to share today. It’s almost time to release Opera Mobile 9.5 for Windows Mobile to the world. We thank you for your patience and support as we make what we (and many others) believe is the best browser for mobile phones. A release testing phase is underway now and the target date for the first beta is July 15th. You will be able to download it from opera.com just like you would any other versions of Opera.
Opera Mobile 9.5 will be based on the same browser engine as Opera 9.5 for desktop, and this is the reason why it has taken some time to get it ready. A new version of the browser engine will ensure that you can surf the Web with a browser supporting the latest and greatest in Web standards.
Some versions of Opera Mobile 9.5 are already shipping on great phones like the HTC Touch Diamond, and some of you have asked why we wouldn’t be able to release it publically yet. As you probably know, releasing a version that works on a large variety of phones is more complex than making it work on one specific phone. You should also expect a few differences between the versions that are pre-installed on phones and the public version of Opera Mobile 9.5.
We’ll have more details about the product in the near future. Thanks again, and we hope you’re ready for some beta testing with us. The Perfect Man hd