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Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 6th, 2011, 3:52 pm
by Pete_S
http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/11/09/, you can get it from the market.

It has the best scrolling and panning I've experienced on the Scroll from any app, very smooth and judderless. There's tab support, easy downloading of files (even more than one at the same time), and the Speed Dial feature with miniature previews of the bookmarks.

The best thing, a "hidden" secret, is the ability to access the configuration file by entering "opera:config" in the url bar. You are taken to an interface where you can change virtually any aspect of the app you want - your jaw will drop when you see the list! I've only done one mod so far, changing the User agent to "mozilla/5.0" so I get served up desktop versions of sites rather than the, sometimes wretched, mobile versions.

The downside of OM 10.1 is the huge footprint (50MB-ish)which really eats into the available storage. But, if a decent browser is important, it's worth it. I wouldn't be without it now :)

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 6th, 2011, 4:33 pm
by Veng
Any links to the APK direct? My market is buggered for now.

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 6th, 2011, 4:58 pm
by Pete_S

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 6th, 2011, 5:06 pm
by Detection
Veng wrote:Any links to the APK direct? My market is buggered for now.



Dont mean to go off topic, but what is wrong with your market ?

My icon disappeared and the only way back in was to run Advanced Task Killer, hold down on the running market process that seemed to still run no matter what, and choose "Switch to"

Then I discovered "Any Cut" which allowed me to find Market again and create a new shortcut

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 7th, 2011, 5:54 pm
by Gordy1965
This is a great programme, been using it on my Blackberry for a while now and it works a treat. Nice to know it is available for Android as well.

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: January 14th, 2011, 12:11 am
by Pete_S
Beware! I've just found out that Opera is generating several 1000s of temp files. We're talking 60+ MB of small files after just 2-3 weeks light use :( They're in:

/data/data/com.opera.browser/opera/profiles/smartphone/cache/sesn/

To manually delete I found it easiest to rename sesn to sesnx, create a new sesn, and delete sesnx. Even the delete takes root explorer about 30secs - minute.

Latest finding:

OK. It is the actual disk cache. I didn't think it was because "clear cache" in settings didn't clear it. Go to Opera configuration (enter opera:config in the url bar), find "disk cache" entry and uncheck "enable", then use the save button. You can then delete the "sesn" folder and it won't come back, problem solved. Disabling the disk cache doesn't appear to impact performance much.

The problem occurs because although Opera is set by default to empty the disk cache on exit, there's no way to properly exit the app, it ends up either being killed by you or by the system. So, the tmp files just build up and up. Doh!

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: February 16th, 2011, 12:28 am
by Mitre
i'm using opera mini(Very fast) does this suffer from the same tmp file problem.
opera:config list doesn't show "disk cache"

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: February 16th, 2011, 12:31 am
by Detection
Cant you set permissions on the offending folder to prevent it being written to ?

Re: Opera Mobile 10.1 beta

PostPosted: May 4th, 2011, 8:44 am
by rollyMiel
I agree with the first post it is really very awesome to use the Opera Mobile 10.1 beta. I have installed it in my android and it works perfectly only a bit complicated to use but fairly fine. Still I am planning to use Firefox moble browser for the plug-ins that I can use in my searches.


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