Opera Mini 10.2 for iOS
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MG39 last edited by
Good news everyone!
We have just updated our Opera Mini for iOS to version 10.2, and now our cool browser has a night mode — a feature that not only dims the screen, but also helps you get a better night’s sleep after late-night browsing in bed.
In designing this feature, we wanted to deal with two obvious problems first:
- Reading on a bright screen in a dark environment hurts your eyes.
- The bright light emitted from the screen can disturb other people around you.
But, as we continued our investigations, we found a bit of a science to support our design of the night mode, namely the fact that the blue light emitted by a glowing screen can disturb your sleep. How? Well, turns out that the human body receives a “wake up signal” through melanopsin, a protein that undergoes a chemical change when exposed to light. It is like your body is saying: ”Hey, it’s morning - time to get up!”
By contrast, red-color tones are associated with sunset, and they try to convince your brain that it is evening and time to go to sleep. From a biochemical point of view, these tones protect melatonin, the sleeping hormone.
To sum up — our night mode dims your screen even more than iOS does by itself, but it also offers a “Bedtime” option, which adds a subtle orange overlay on top of the browser, filtering out blue tones and enabling you to sleep more soundly.
Give it a try and leave us some feedback!
You can download Opera Mini from the App Store: https://appsto.re/se/ykHRv.i
Opera Mini for iOS Team
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jmwking last edited by
Thanks. Did you fix the problem where it turns off night mode when switching apps?
-jk
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MG39 last edited by
Hi jk!
We are a bit weary of having our users get stuck in night mode, so we have some heuristics to automatically switch it off.
But we may be experimenting a bit with making the switch-off button more visible in the UI, and then we can tone down this heuristics.
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jmwking last edited by
Embedded videos in vBulletin (one of the leading BBS packages) still don't show, whether as an embedded video, a link, or even just a frickin' asterisk. I'd love to know when there's a video there, even if I can't view it through Mini.
-jk
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ultr4lite last edited by
Bugs on this particular v10.2.0.93022:
- Opera Mini mode not working. Either via wifi or 3G. Do read reviews on itunes, there are other user having same issue.
- Opera Turbo mode Load Image (OFF) not working. Always loading image.
- Either Turbo or Off mode, it seems that tabs are reloading the pages which consuming data.
Tested on both non-night & night mode, Mobile & Desktop off User Agent.
Regards.
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netwolf last edited by
This page never loads with Opera Mini (and Turbo enabled):
It's a site by a University institute about measuring the amount of UV-radiation entering the atmosphere...
It loads normal and fast with any other browser, but I never managed to load it with Opera Mini on iOS.
Can anybody confirm?
(@devs: can you fix it with future version?)
btw: it loads fine without any additional compression (Off), or even with Mini setting, but does not load it with Turbo turned on.
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A Former User last edited by
why dont u wanna underatand and listen to us i dont like this opera layout i need old opera layout where refresh is down i need a light veraion
i dont need skyfire or chrome browser built in
i cant find a copy on the internet it needs username and pass word an apple account.... help please -
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volker-fuchser last edited by
So when do we get WKWebView in Opera Mini? Password syncing? Individual cookie management?
