I just downloaded opera mini 5 from www.opera.com and I am fking shocked by the smoothness and user friendliness....for a moment I thought I was on safari/iphone.
Awesome job Opera Team!!!
Please keep us posted as to how it handle sites with flash, downloads, videos, etc.
I prefer skyfire because there is little it can't handle, I just don't care for the interface.
Bruce Inman said:
Please keep us posted as to how it handle sites with flash, downloads, videos, etc.
I prefer skyfire because there is little it can't handle, I just don't care for the interface.
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that will be tough cause i generally use my mobile for quick access to info from sites by reading...and if need to watch videos, youtube app suffices.....
posted using opera mini
Here is a test....
go to www.championsparkplugs.com using the browser of your choice.
In my comparision testing, opera mini came out the winner because it renders the page perfectly in mobile mode and focusses on the search spark plug and the combobox drop down is rendered full page when you click on it making it easy to select the right entry.....
chikoo said:
Here is a test....
go to www.championsparkplugs.com using the browser of your choice.
In my comparision testing, opera mini came out the winner because it renders the page perfectly in mobile mode and focusses on the search spark plug and the combobox drop down is rendered full page when you click on it making it easy to select the right entry.....
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And this is what I mean...see attached screen shots.
What good is a browser when it is not finger friendly? If I wanted to see the full website like I do on a PC, I would do it on my PC.
The mobile phone is a tool that should help you when you need the information and you do not have access to a PC.
I use this example because I was at Home depot to buy a spark plug for my lawn power. I was not sure which plug to buy so I went to champion spark plug website using IE, and then Opera 9.7 and Opera Mini 5 WM Native beta.
You can see which one was way better engineered to help me get my information without pulling out the stylus and a magnifying glass.
Bruce Inman said:
Please keep us posted as to how it handle sites with flash, downloads, videos, etc.
I prefer skyfire because there is little it can't handle, I just don't care for the interface.
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Doesn't do flash, videos, etc... Great little app for lite viewing as it is fast, but you are better off with Skyfire if you are looking for a more robust internet experience...
talonz55 said:
Doesn't do flash, videos, etc... Great little app for lite viewing as it is fast, but you are better off with Skyfire if you are looking for a more robust internet experience...
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I will have to disagree here.
Try www.aa.com or www.amtrak.com book a ticket or look up a flight/train schedule.
same for wikipedia. the text formatted to fit the screen and all I need to do is scroll up or down, not sideways.
Opera mini in mobile mode does a wonderful job.
Skyfire does not do such a great job to render it in mobile mode and is great for rendering a "pc-look-alike" screen, but I will need to zoom and/or need a stylus to get the same thing done.
As of now, I have both on my ATT Pure. Use them depending upon what I need to use it for.
chikoo said:
I will have to disagree here.
Try www.aa.com or www.amtrak.com book a ticket or look up a flight/train schedule.
same for wikipedia. the text formatted to fit the screen and all I need to do is scroll up or down, not sideways.
Opera mini in mobile mode does a wonderful job.
Skyfire does not do such a great job to render it in mobile mode and is great for rendering a "pc-look-alike" screen, but I will need to zoom and/or need a stylus to get the same thing done.
As of now, I have both on my ATT Pure. Use them depending upon what I need to use it for.
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I will have to disagree with your disagreeing as we are really not disagreeing...
Just responding to Inman's post and maybe it's a little my fault as I did not properly explain myself. Websites that use flash and videos can not be accessed by Opera Mini properly as you will lose that content. That is why I would recommend Skyfire over Opera Mini in those instances. However, I do use Opera Mini as my main browser and switch to Skyfire when I need that "PC-look-alike" experience...
Dude, we agree, not to disagree with you...
talonz55 said:
I will have to disagree with your disagreeing as we are really not disagreeing...
Just responding to Inman's post and maybe it's a little my fault as I did not properly explain myself. Websites that use flash and videos can not be accessed by Opera Mini properly as you will lose that content. That is why I would recommend Skyfire over Opera Mini in those instances. However, I do use Opera Mini as my main browser and switch to Skyfire when I need that "PC-look-alike" experience...
Dude, we agree, not to disagree with you...
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Well, it's good for a laugh anyways!
Thanks Guys!
talonz55 said:
I will have to disagree with your disagreeing as we are really not disagreeing...
Just responding to Inman's post and maybe it's a little my fault as I did not properly explain myself. Websites that use flash and videos can not be accessed by Opera Mini properly as you will lose that content. That is why I would recommend Skyfire over Opera Mini in those instances. However, I do use Opera Mini as my main browser and switch to Skyfire when I need that "PC-look-alike" experience...
Dude, we agree, not to disagree with you...
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I thought so.....glad to know that we are all for the best app that fits the job!
opera mini 5.1 is the bomb
I have tried the new release of opera mini 5.1. The web browser is the fastest mobile browser I have ever used on my HTC pure. It makes all the other browsers like IE, opera mobile 10, skyfire, bolt, android, and iphone's safari look like a joke. Only one downside, it cannot run flash. It download videos and connects to streaming media easily though.
Thank you for introducing this perfect explorer. It's really very fast, I made it my default explorer.
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take a look at this picture of the new XDA Comet running WM6. I want to know what browser its showing on the device.
http://www.theunwired.net/?item=confirmed-o2-germany-to-release-the-o2-xda-comet-early-october
my apologies for posting this in the wrong forum...i realized after posting that there's probably better places to post a question regarding software that is being run on a device that is not a wizard.
mods, feel free to move this thread to wherever you think it best fits.
look like picsel , but as far as i know , picsel is only for samsung ... i don't know then ( maybe a new version of deepfish )
Given the image fits to the curve of the screen housing, I guess it's just a photoshop job. If it was an LCD image it would have 90 degree corners and would not be 100% to the edge of the housing.
Picsel also doesn't (natively) go fullscreen, so it's probably Photoshopped. There are a number of good browsers that will go fullscreen though...
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vijay555 said:
Picsel also doesn't (natively) go fullscreen, so it's probably Photoshopped. There are a number of good browsers that will go fullscreen though...
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You've said too much Vijay, how can Picsel go fullscreen? (and also is it possible to browse the web without being online? I mean the history pages, just like in PIE)
Thanks
Quiyaro said:
You've said too much Vijay, how can Picsel go fullscreen? (and also is it possible to browse the web without being online? I mean the history pages, just like in PIE)
Thanks
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The latest version of picsel, hacked to install on any WM device, is NATIVELY full screen. You have to tap and hold for everything. Picsel is not a great browser, it's main purpose is as a file viewer. It's not great at THAT, either.
dragon_76 said:
The latest version of picsel, hacked to install on any WM device, is NATIVELY full screen. You have to tap and hold for everything. Picsel is not a great browser, it's main purpose is as a file viewer. It's not great at THAT, either.
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Agreed. See my related review at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1213451&postcount=20 for a review of a, as far as native full screen support is concerned, earlier version.
Quiyaro said:
You've said too much Vijay, how can Picsel go fullscreen? (and also is it possible to browse the web without being online? I mean the history pages, just like in PIE)
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As has been explained in the Web Browsing Bible ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1213451&postcount=20 ), the Picsel browser doesn't do ANY caching. Therefore, no history pages either.
After flashing my AT&T 8525 with the cooked WM6 ROM found on these forums, my only real gripe is web browsing. I was able to get my hands on and install Picsel Browser which does alright but is very slow to load pages and still murders most pages. Is there anything available that accurately displays web pages as they would be viewed on a normal desktop (like the iPhone's safari or the upcoming Verizon LG Voyager)?
I've done forum searches for browser but that obviously brought up a ton of unrelated responses. Any help would be appreciated.
Opera Mobile rocks! I was surprised about how good the pages were displayed. Just give it a go!
It has tabbed browsing, which is a benefaction. I don't know much about browsers however, as everything is better than Blazer on PalmOS
Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried Opera Mini but it tended to blow up a lot of the pages I tried to view. I just installed the Opera mini beta 4 and it seems to do be a bit faster. I'll try the full version as well.
Did a search for zoom browser and found this thread which answered most of my questions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322163&highlight=zoom+browser
N1c0_ds mentioned about opera mobile which is different from opera mini.
opera mobile is much better then opera mini
hey guys take a look at his link http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1283853
its now possiable to have opera be your default broswer...it even launches from links im mail and other apps. thanks a million for this MENN!! throy? and other cooks? do you guys think this is worth cooking in roms? I'd sure love to see this.
for those of you who dont know about opera mini...fire up your browsers on your phones and head over to mini.opera.com....click on try oper mini 4....then click high memory version and it will install. ofcourse you'll need to have a java manager on ya phone....i've attached it below. enjoy!!!
rzanology said:
hey guys take a look at his link http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1283853
its now possiable to have opera be your default broswer...it even launches from links im mail and other apps. thanks a million for this MENN!! throy? and other cooks? do you guys think this is worth cooking in roms? I'd sure love to see this.
for those of you who dont know about opera mini...fire up your browsers on your phones and head over to mini.opera.com....click on try oper mini 4....then click high memory version and it will install. ofcourse you'll need to have a java manager on ya phone....i've attached it below. enjoy!!!
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great find thank you
I can't believe it
I can't believe only one person has said thank you for finding this. Opera Mini is sweet and fast (although Opera Mobile in Desktop mode is the only browser that I have been able to log in to my banks site chase.com and it has tabs ). Thank you very much really appreciate it.
I remember being confused with the CAB choices. What's the difference between options 'with and without selection dialog?'
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1740111&postcount=17
Menneisyys posted his thread in the General section too: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=347689
The selection dialog will kick in whenever you click a link to open a browser, so you can choose between PIE or Opera Mini. For more information see post #6 at the link I posted.
nevermind, didn't realize this thread is ancient...
funguy524 said:
I can't believe only one person has said thank you for finding this. Opera Mini is sweet and fast (although Opera Mobile in Desktop mode is the only browser that I have been able to log in to my banks site chase.com and it has tabs ). Thank you very much really appreciate it.
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Sorry, said my thanks to Shlomki already (the dude who tied up the different mortscripts into cab files). I think this is an awesome package indeed - Opera Mini truly rocks!
funguy524 said:
I can't believe only one person has said thank you for finding this. Opera Mini is sweet and fast (although Opera Mobile in Desktop mode is the only browser that I have been able to log in to my banks site chase.com and it has tabs ). Thank you very much really appreciate it.
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chase works for me with opera mini. I pointed my chase bookmark to "https://resources.chase.com/MyAccounts.aspx". if you don't get forwarded to your account after entering username/pass just reload the page by clicking on the bookmark again.
Hi people,
I know of pocket explorer, and the opera release, but is there any other webbrowsers out there that are any good?
What i am looking for is something like the iphones safari. That would be nice
Pocket Explorer
Opera
Deepfish - damn shame this was never continued!
Cheers
Opera have 2 releases, you didn't mention which one you have. Opera Mobile is one of them but its not free, its good for tabbed browsing and downloads but personally i can't get along with it as it runs slow on my handset and often has script errors, plus struggles with desktop pages and uses alot of data. Opera Mini is the other one and i personally think its amazing. You can load up full web pages quickly and easily and it allows you to zoom in and out of the pages so you can view them like you would on your desktop. It uses very low amounts of data so its cheap to use, plus its free to download.
I personally use opera on my handset as it works well with windows, its the best thing so far anyway.
If your thinking of something more along the lines of the safari (iphone) experience, there is nothing at this time that matches it exactly, but there are similar programs you can get hold of that have been around a little while like Picsel Browser. Which can load up full pages (but cost you alot of data), and renders the pages pretty well, plus you can scroll with your finger and zoom in and out of pages without a stylus. I used to use this browser but i'm now totally hooked on Opera Mini.
I'm sure there are some other browsers out there but these two i mentioned are the only 2 i consider worth mentioning.
PS. Deepfish is similar to Opera mini, its optimises pages server side to make them smaller (data wise anyway), but i think opera have stollen the game from microsoft, thus them stopping any more work on the project, from what we can see anyway!
Hope this all helps btw
Read by related articles at http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Web Browsing, browsers
Personally I don't use opera mini, because it doesn't come for the htc p4350, i can run the generic, but I have to startup java first, then opera, and with every text area (including adress) it opens a new typing window..
Mattijn106 said:
Personally I don't use opera mini, because it doesn't come for the htc p4350, i can run the generic, but I have to startup java first, then opera, and with every text area (including adress) it opens a new typing window..
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That's the same way it works on my wing. However, as I'm browsing from a phone, I really don't have the highest of expectations for my browsing experience, and all things considered, opera mini is the best option I've found thus far.
how do i get picsel..
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how do i get picsel..
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search google. I tried to find a search term that linked to a site with picsel, but i couldnt find a term that worked. And no posting links to warez, so your only hope is google.... or pm me, and ill tell you my number to call me, and ill help you out...
Rory
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There's a lot more than just opera and ie, Picsel's the way to go.
leaskovski said:
Hi people,
I know of pocket explorer, and the opera release, but is there any other webbrowsers out there that are any good?
What i am looking for is something like the iphones safari. That would be nice
Cheers
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Look for Picsel browser, it works almost exactly as the iPhone safari, the zoom, the kinetic scrolling, all that stuff. Execpt it's made for only samsung phones so they don't make it availible for everybody. I have aa copy, but i don't think i can post it here. Type it in google, there a lot of them there. That's where i found mine. And by the way Picsel dosent just view web pages, it also views pictures, word, excel,pdf and powerpoint. Goodluck
leaskovski said:
Hi people,
I know of pocket explorer, and the opera release, but is there any other webbrowsers out there that are any good?
What i am looking for is something like the iphones safari. That would be nice
Pocket Explorer
Opera
Deepfish - damn shame this was never continued!
Cheers
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Ever thought about the FTX browser or Webby?
well..guys i got the file..but havent test it yet..well..atleast not yet..lolz jus typed in Picsel Browser 1.0.5 download..nd got it ;D
I tried Piscel and it was very snazzy, however, it does have some site limitations so it looks like the pay version of opera is the way to go.
is it just me or does opera browser (the one u buy) suck really bad? does it completely miss the zoom functionality that opera mini has????
am I missing something?
I would agree. I had a little play with Opera 9.5 beta but it was not as intuative as OperaMini. Certainly it did not have the full zoom out feature that makes OperaMini a great browser.
Regards
opera mini rocks ... opera mobile sucks .. it would be nice if they had a setting where i could define default zoom so i don't have to zoom in 100 times to get the text size that is good for me ...
hands down opera mini is better.
okay so im not crazy... I just don't understand why they wouldn't include the full page zoom functionality in their retail app... that's really the only reason to go outside of PIE anyways..
only problem with opera mini is that it sits in java and doesn't have the integration abilities that opera browser does but these nifty scripts people have created are making that more seamless... Opera really needs to get on the ball and make opera browser intriguing.
type opera:config in the address bar to fine tune the zoom options
make sure you read my past Opera Mini-related articles, where I thoroughly compared the two browsers.
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make sure you read my past Opera Mini-related articles, where I thoroughly compared the two browsers.
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Nope haven't seen that one... search for opera mini is like finding a needle in a haystack though. Got a friendly link?
Also... on the post about running opera:config in the address bar... does that give you access to some additional options or something? I don't have opera installed anymore atm to test.. does this enable the zoom/out/in functionality like opera mini or something?
Zenoran said:
Also... on the post about running opera:config in the address bar... does that give you access to some additional options or something? I don't have opera installed anymore atm to test.. does this enable the zoom/out/in functionality like opera mini or something?
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Yes you get taken to the advanced options page where you can play with zoom above other things
i guess u guys were referring to the new 9.5 beta... i was referring to the version they have avail on their website.. 8.65 or something? which clearly is nothing compared to this newer version...
i installed the 9 beta and it does seem much better... will be a great release once it goes live.