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Opera Mini Approved for Inclusion in App Store
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What's to love? It's the worst thing i've ever seen. Absolute garbage. Alternative to Safari? Not a chance. What a joke.
I'd really like to see Chrome come to the iPhone; it's a great browser IMO, and I honestly think an iPhone version would kick mobile safari's butt. As for Opera Mini, it is fast, but that's the only good thing that it has going for it. Zooming is really poorly implemented, and scrolling is very weird.
I'll be satisfied when a usable browser allows me to turn off auto-rotate.
@ fox777 - there is a problem with your theory, Apple needs to aprove all updates.
Don
I'll be satisfied when a usable browser allows me to turn off auto-rotate.
@ fox777 - there is a problem with your theory, Apple needs to aprove all updates.
Don
It's not terrible. It has deficient zooming. I much prefer its tabs and quick launch page to what Apple gives you in Safari. Scrolling feels less nice, but that can be improved.
That being said, people are rating this positive because this is the first time Apple has approved a Web Browser that isn't based on a UIWebView for inclusion in the app store. A lot of people were expecting this to be rejected since it's not based on Webkit (no, it's not folks, Webkit doesn't support OBML, which is what Opera servers send back after processing the HTML/CSS).
Hopefully we can now put to bed all these theories that App x won't get approved because it hurts the iTunes store:
Netflix streaming
Music streaming
etc,etc
Flash-not refused because it will hurt game sales.
Looks to me like they want to sell hardware.As long as it meets their user experience standards and is reasonably secure it's a go.
Netflix streaming
Music streaming
etc,etc
Flash-not refused because it will hurt game sales.
Looks to me like they want to sell hardware.As long as it meets their user experience standards and is reasonably secure it's a go.
Anyone else have problems with it forgetting what you type in MR reply boxes after you hit "Done"?
Fast is the only thing going for it, and it feels very much like its a beta.
No, Im not going back and putting in the missing apostrophies.
Fast is the only thing going for it, and it feels very much like its a beta.
No, Im not going back and putting in the missing apostrophies.
Opera Mini blows, try Atomic Browser instead
If you guys want a better browser download the 99 cent Atomic Browser. It has tabbed browsing (and opens tabs in the background if you want it to), and you can load as many tabs as you want. With Mobile Safari you're limited to like 8 "windows" I think. With Atomic Browser not only can you open as many as you want, but when you switch back to the first tabs you opened it doesn't reload the page like Mobile Safari does (Safari kicks old windows out of RAM to make room for new ones, forcing you to reload when you return to the page, Atomic Browser keeps them all loaded. This is more noticeable with the iPad where you're lucky to get 4-5 pages before Mobile Safari starts reloading old ones). The only downside to Atomic Browser is that when you close the app and open it back up, it reloads every tab. I spoke with the developer about it, and he says it is a limitation of the iPhone SDK, but the new "saved state" feature in iPhone OS 4.0 may allow for him to keep the tabs between sessions without having to reload them.
If you don't want to pay the buck download the free version which has some limitations but it gives you a good sense of the browser.
I am in no way affiliated with this developer I just recently found this app and am telling everyone about it because it is leaps and bounds ahead of Mobile Safari.
If you guys want a better browser download the 99 cent Atomic Browser. It has tabbed browsing (and opens tabs in the background if you want it to), and you can load as many tabs as you want. With Mobile Safari you're limited to like 8 "windows" I think. With Atomic Browser not only can you open as many as you want, but when you switch back to the first tabs you opened it doesn't reload the page like Mobile Safari does (Safari kicks old windows out of RAM to make room for new ones, forcing you to reload when you return to the page, Atomic Browser keeps them all loaded. This is more noticeable with the iPad where you're lucky to get 4-5 pages before Mobile Safari starts reloading old ones). The only downside to Atomic Browser is that when you close the app and open it back up, it reloads every tab. I spoke with the developer about it, and he says it is a limitation of the iPhone SDK, but the new "saved state" feature in iPhone OS 4.0 may allow for him to keep the tabs between sessions without having to reload them.
If you don't want to pay the buck download the free version which has some limitations but it gives you a good sense of the browser.
I am in no way affiliated with this developer I just recently found this app and am telling everyone about it because it is leaps and bounds ahead of Mobile Safari.
I just downloaded this and typing thiz kn my ipod touch now from thiz browser qnd i like it. Its real fast. But where is the multi touch?
Oh i wonder what apple woyld do if they released GOOGLE chrome on here
Oh i wonder what apple woyld do if they released GOOGLE chrome on here
Awfull!
How anyone can claim that Opera for iPhone is great is beyond me.
It plain suc*ks!
Renders CSS badly and the zooming is awkward
How anyone can claim that Opera for iPhone is great is beyond me.
It plain suc*ks!
Renders CSS badly and the zooming is awkward
Tried this last night and it is horrible... I too agree that it was approved because Apple knew the public would laugh at this crappy browser while simulataneously given Apple major points for approving it. Theonly thing good this browser has is the TABS feature, hopefully apple rip them off for that, and add it to Safari. I too will probably Delete this app before the end of the week!
I think its a fantastic start. Im the type of user who likes to have multiple tabs/pages open - going back and forth between them. I can do this in Opera and cannot in Safari. Safari has to reload pages all the time. Opera doesnt have to, so it doesnt waste my time. And this is just version 1.0. Apple has been working on Safari Mobile for years.
Opera is also blazing fast. As for the zooming, the pinch to zoom is kinda clumsy, but taping to zoom is perfect. Copy/paste is not that good either.
However, objectively, this is a great start. In fact, it has a 4 star rating from over 4,000 users in the App Store.
It's got some major UI issues and inexplicably lacks auto-correct support, but it's way faster over 3G and just destroys Safari over EDGE, meaning that it will likely become my new 'information-checking on the go' browser. I think we should be thankful that it's on the Store at all. There aren't any issues here that can't be fixed via updates.
It is odd that its performance gain is negligable, or non-existant, over Wi-fi.
It is odd that its performance gain is negligable, or non-existant, over Wi-fi.
Your first paragraph may well be incorrect. Try opening up twenty or so tabs. If it doesn't crash, then it's not keeping them in memory. Though it's possible it's serializing a certain number to a local data store.
Also, to the person upthread who claimed this was not using WebKit... got a cite for that? Your evidence re: "WebKit doesn't support OBML" is underwhelming (to be polite).
i agree
i downloaded it yesterday on my ipad and did not like it. so i tried dl it on my iphone and i hated it too. the interface is whack, u have a toolbar on top and on the bottom, limiting your viewing space. then when u go to a webpage u have to zoom in to actually read the text otherwise it looks like scribbles. its not fast at all either. i tried loading macrumors and engadget and it took forever. i think apple just approved this app so they could boast on how great safari is. . .
i downloaded it yesterday on my ipad and did not like it. so i tried dl it on my iphone and i hated it too. the interface is whack, u have a toolbar on top and on the bottom, limiting your viewing space. then when u go to a webpage u have to zoom in to actually read the text otherwise it looks like scribbles. its not fast at all either. i tried loading macrumors and engadget and it took forever. i think apple just approved this app so they could boast on how great safari is. . .
Holy terrible browser Batman!
This thing sucks. The only way the speed benefit would cause me to still use it is if it read my mind and loaded a page even before I thought about going to it.
This thing sucks. The only way the speed benefit would cause me to still use it is if it read my mind and loaded a page even before I thought about going to it.
It probably is beta, they probably never expected it to be approved in the first place, I will be interested to see how the subsequent updates handle it.
Google Voice - Google Voice - Google Voice
Google Voice Next PLease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MobileFirefox would be nice to see too!
Google Voice Next PLease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MobileFirefox would be nice to see too!
These are exactly my feelings. It's getting the spot on my dock just out of principle. I mean I was hardly using Safari anymore anyway because it's so slow. So it's a trade off for sure.
Opera Mini is not great and it's not terrible. It's got potential and is totally usable in the meantime.
