[Announce] Opera Mobile 12.1
 

We are proud to introduce Opera Mobile 10 for Maemo. Read the full announcement and download details at Opera Labs.

Please note! This is an unofficial experimental hobby release so don't expect wonders. It may drain your battery and send the data bill sky high, or it may be a successful step in our mission of giving you the best Internet experience on any device!

Your feedback on this release is greatly appreciated!

Update: We have now published a new package that should resolve the settings not saved issue.

Update 2: We have now changed the repository so that everyone who is taking a sneak peek at PR1.2 can install without having to edit the catalog in the app manager.

Update 3: Changelog for the 10alpha1-3 update:

• Fix crash when typing URLs.
• Fix crash after screen rotation.
• Fix crash in CSS transitions.
• Add support for 15 languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (USA), Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
• Support Cyrillic hardware keyboard. Use ctrl+space to change which keyboard to use.
• Fixed empty tab when opening links from external applications.
• Respect OPERA_HOME and OPERA_DIR environment variables.
• Use connection specific proxy settings.

Update 4:

Changelog for 10.1beta1-5:

• Geolocation support.
• Javascript JIT support.
• Fix garbage display after rotation due to incorrect stride.
• Fix monospaced font in UI elements.
• Fix display of Asian fonts in UI elements.
• More efficient socket handling, decreases CPU usage slightly.
• Suspend JavaScript, animations etc. when screen saver activates.
• Reduced tearing while panning.
• Fix proxy server mixup.
• Fix crash when reading proxy settings.
• Upgraded Opera Core, including many bugfixes
• Many bugfixes to the UI

New known issues:

• Somewhat higher memory usage, especially on JavaScript intensive sites.
• Due to timing issues with different geolocation information providers (WiFi, cell towers, GPS) first request may have poor precision.
• Fast scrolling not optimized for page rendering.

Changelog for 10.1beta1-6:

• Screen orientation setting should now work
• Fix for "warp speed" when panning bug introduced in the previous release

Update 5:

Opera Mobile 11 is here, read the forum and blog posts.

Changelog for 11.0beta1-7:

• Native on-screen keyboard support.
• New option to use Droid fonts (requires ttf-droid package).
• Add detailed geolocation settings.
• Turn off GPS on inactivity.
• Handle symbolic links to directories in the file chooser.

Changelog for 11.0beta1-8:

• Fix black screen on startup caused by bad settings.

Update 6:

Read this forum post for more info on startup problems.

Changelog for 11.0beta1-9:

• Fix crash in the file and directory selector.
• Don't capitalize first letter when typing passwords.
• Improve handling of multi-line text fields.
• Fix another potential black screen on startup bug.
• Print startup diagnostic messages to console.
• Prevent urlfilter from blocking everything.
• Fix FTP download progress indicator.

Update 7:

Opera Mobile 11.5 is here, read the forum and Opera Mobile blog for information on whats new.

Changelog for 11.5beta1-10:

• Add more keyboard shortcuts.

Update 8:

Changelog for 11.5beta1-11:

• Fix cut/copy/paste key bindings when using the Opera keyboard.
• Fix zoom in/out key bindings.
• Bind plus/minus buttons to zoom in/out on the N800 and N810.

Changelog for 11.5beta1-12:

• Fix space key when using the Opera keyboard.

Update 9:

The newly released build 13 contains all the changes from the 11.5.2 release for Android, and:

Changelog for 11.5beta1-13:

• Don't request a network connection when visiting localhost.
• Fix crash when canceling a network connection request.

Changelog for 11.5beta1-14:

• Fix crash when canceling a network connection request for real.

Update 10:

Believe it or not Opera Mobile 12.1 for the N900 is here. See the Android announcement for details on whats new. As usual not all new features may be present in the Maemo version.

This is the last major update, see the forum post.

Changelog for 12.1beta1-15:

• Update to 12.1

Update 11:

Just a few bug fixes. Know issues in this release:

• Paste does not work in contentEditable/designMode.
• Native on screen keyboard does not activate in contentEditable/designMode.

Changelog for 12.1beta1-16:

• Restore the Opera keyboard setting.
• Fix copy text in web pages.
• Fix arrow and backspace keys in contentEditable/designMode.

Best regards,
The Smooth Sailing Team at Opera Software’s Göteborg, Sweden office

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Does this support data compression like Opera Mini?

The real rendering was a bit intensive at least for N95 as it was constantly whining about "low memory" all the time if you had a few tabs open.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

This is awesome, full portrait and QWERTY keyboard and lots of stuff, thank you.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

And for N8x0 too :O

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

This is great news, I hope you keep it up :)

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Thanks, its a very usefull and fast browser!! Much better than Firefox

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

its great, fast and auto rotate :)

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Thanx, my fav browser just came to the N900, wonderful work.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

it works for the N8x0 also
at least that's what it says on the website

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

not to mention Opera Turbo, great if you don't have an unlimited dataplan, or a fast connection.
( I posted this reply using Opera on N900 by the way :)

edit, feedback: the interface works very well, the only gripe i have so far is that the kinetic scrolling does not feel as fast as MicroB. The 'friction' is probably set lower there.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Ooops .. flash not supported :(

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

I couldn't update the catalogue, so couldn't install Opera. Perhaps server overload, since everyones trying to download ?

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Anyone else have this prob, if i exit opera it resets next time i open it? i have to re accept the terms and all settings reset and user bookmarks are gone

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

No, this is a full web browser, unlike Opera Mini. It does however support Opera Turbo, which provides similar benefits.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Sounds great, I'll see how it works. We're starting to get quite a collection of browsers.

A lot of the time I use my N900 on a 2G connection and at least on my E71 Opera was still quite fast even on such low speed network, so maybe this could be my low-bandwith browser.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Yep, and the setting doesnt seems to save my bookmark are gone. I also notice you can't remove bookmarks, longpress reveals a menu but then it disappear.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

me too

all the time

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

WOW!!! Great job guys!

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

You can; after the long press, do not slide, but release your finger/stylus, and press the menu option. It works the same way with a long press on a link (open in new window :)

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Are you using leaked PR1.2 build??

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Hi. If you haven't figured that out yet, I'm one of the developers behind this.

To those of you having the problems that settings are reset: Does it manage to create a "/home/user/.opera" folder when it is run? If not, what happens if you create that folder manually? ("mkdir .opera" in a terminal window)

I just tried removing opera and all my settings, but could not reproduce the issue here.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Wow, downloading this NOW for N810...but...no Flash support??

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Folder is there the only thing in it is "skin"

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

cannot create directory,

.opera file exists

and the issue still there

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

While we do have many browsers to choose from already, I'm thankful that you guys have jumped into the mix. More options are always welcome from a user point-of-view. I hope you guys can make this a great browser for the N900.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

There's portrait VKB. Didn't notice that on the first go

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Man, I love the portrait browsing on this, complete with the vertical virtual keyboard. When you fix the profile saving issue and the battery sucking, this will probably become my primary browser. The Turbo -option really speeds up the browsing on 2/3g and the scrolling is really smooth.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Opera rules!!!

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

WOW. thank you for this nice browser... gonna download it ryt now...

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Just ...awesome
Opera was the best think on windows mobile for me - and now we have it on maemo :)
(Btw: how long takes to port it on android ? two years ?)

Bug report: settings are not stored after standart or maemo turn of. Next time loading with defaults.

+ finger press hold menu didnt apear (like text selection on/of).

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

I also couldn't install using app manager. It says "package not found"
so i downloaded the deb from here "http://deb.opera.com/maemo/pool/non-free/o/opera-mobile/" and installed it.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Great!! Opera is my favourite browser. On my pc Opera is default browser and in my N73 I use opera mini.Now in N900 this is great news.Lets hope that there will be a official release.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

The Diablo install of Opera Mobile does have a 14Meg footprint which feels a tad much. Will try to see if it can be 'justified' :)

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Opera = best browser in the world!

I want to thank you opera people personally! Thank you!

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Wow - you've really made my day!

This is the first decent alternative to the built-in browser for the N900 I've seen. It's really fast. Seems faster at displaying the previous page too (and, thank god, it's got a proper Back button instead of that fancy shmanzy Visual History that's pointless most of the time).

Love the single-tap zooming and tabs. I also find the virtual keyboard much more usable than the built-in one (for the purpose of entering urls and search terms at least). Also really like the safari 3-style progress indicator in the address bar.

These were just my first impressions after a few minutes playing with it. I'm sure I'll find a pile of bugs afterwards :) But first impressions is what matters the most. It's so rare to find a piece of software on Maemo that makes you go wow straight away from both the UI and the functionality perspective that you deserve a big praise here.

Really hope that this won't become an abandoned experiment and that you'll keep making this even better.

Edit: just noticed that the virtual keyboard works in portrait mode too! Boy, I'd be happy to pay for this thing if it wasn't free.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

oh men i love using browser as fast as this... plus, the virtual keyboard in portrait mode.... Opera rocks.. i hope the will enable the flash on the future updates...

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

That one didn't fix the setting issues either, it's all same. Strange that you couldn't install from the lab page i had no problem with it.

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

I have a quick attempt at a workaround for the not saving settings issue. From a terminal window run:
We are working on a fix, though we can't reproduce it on any of the devices we have here in the office, so it may take a while. :(

In the meantime, if those of you who experience the problem would PM me the following info (before doing the workaround above!) it would help us greatly:
- Output from running - Output from running

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Yep. Virtual Keyboard in portrait mode rocks. opera :-*

Re: [Announce] Opera Mobile 10
 

Working great , very fast.But one problem - takes too much processing power.Processor runs @600 mhz maximum time.