Mobile Browser Opera Mini Gains Speed

By WebProNews Staff - Tue, 05/13/2008 - 18:59

Opera Mini updated to 4.1

The incremental update of Opera Mini to version 4.1 gave the little browser faster operation and a few extra features.

Norwegian browser maker Opera Software opened Opera Mini 4.1 to public usage today. The company claims over 44 million people have used Opera Mini on their mobile devices.

The newest update brought along performance the company touted as bring up to 50 percent faster than the previous version. Opera also listed other features added to Mini 4.1:

The new Opera Mini will automatically suggest URL completions, making address input easy and intuitive
Web pages can be saved for later off-line viewing
Opera Mini 4.1 gives you quick access to the word or phrase you want in Web pages
Images, ringtones and other content can be downloaded without leaving Opera Mini.

Opera figures in the competition between major Internet players who seek fortunes in the mobile space. Though Opera once had Yahoo as its default mobile search provider, they switched to Google earlier in 2008.

With tens of millions of potential viewers at stake, the battle for Opera Mini users and their default search may not be over yet.

News Tags: Technology, Browser, mobile, Opera Mini, Software

3 Comments

By mobiclue (WPN reader) - Mon, 03/09/2009 - 16:42

Opera mobile browser

Opera mini is of course the world's fastest mobile browser . Its faster that than the normal Opera browser which is payed . The best part of opera mobile software is that its free , faster and works on almost all mobile phones .

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/10/2008 - 03:47

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By SkyFire mobile browser review (WPN reader) - Thu, 09/04/2008 - 11:56

Opera doesn't come close to Skyfire

I didn't like Opera mini 4.1 at all. I did however like the Opera 9.5 mobile browser. The only problem was I recieved a constant "Out of memory erro" even though I tried a work around that put all of my cache onto a storage card.

I came accross SkyFire's mobile web browser while searching for a better mobile browser (because IE wasn't cutting it). SkyFire is the mobile browser of the future. I can see flash, silverlight and Ajax apps like Gmail in full PC mobile. Skyfire beats out Opera hands down in speed and usability.

I wrote a full review of the Skyfire mobile web browser. I think people should take a look at it and sign up for the beta 2 release.