Opera Mini 8 for Android

d-wa

d-wa

at the time I got one problem:
on a long textbox the screen did not adjusting to typing focus so the text eventually got under my virtual keyboard.
then I have to back and scroll the page I'm in to the end of the textbox to continue typing. same problem to see the previous text.

it highly inconvenient.
it even happen as I type this very comment.

I hope you got solution for it

batuzai04123

batuzai04123

Wow thank you for this. New UI and I love it

By the way, I was able to use previous versions of Opera Mini connected to wifi that tunnels all connection to a proxy. I used a 3rd party application to proxify all my connections from my android phone and everything (all applications) work flawlessly including the operamini 7 android version.

Right now, It seems OM 8 can't connect to this kind of connection anymore, so I'm relying on my 3G connection to browse

Can you give some workaround on this or explanations why this issue exists?

tinman9898

tinman9898

I have been using the new version (8) of Opera mini for Android for several days and must say it's not as easy to use as the pevious version Is there any way to keep any improvements 'under the hood' of the new version but provide the option to use the old user interface as it looks less bland, has less glaring white space (therefore using less battery power to display, being darker) and speed dial icons, refresh button etc. are bigger and easier to select on my Samsung Galaxy Ace and galaxy Ace 2 phones which do not have the huge screens of the more expensive models. Also Is there anyway to remove the bookmarks and saved pages icons from speed dial? Tried deleting them but seems you can only shuffle them around the screen. Over all, version 7 interface seems far more comfortable and efficient to use and looks more appealing (the move of developers to the glaring white space, flat blandness and cluttered web 2.0 page design look of the windows 8 and 10 models has not been an improvement in my opinion. Makes everything look like it is reverting to the early 1990's. The new BBC news website for desktop, for exampl,e looks like a disaster of a design as they attempt to provide a 'one size fits all' reactive design for all platforms). I have both Opera mini versions on my phone but will continue to use 7 until 8 improves look, usability and becomes more efficient in terms of number of clicks. I hope Opera 7 mini will stiil receive any security updates as they become available and it may be an idea to make it available on the Play store allowing people to revert to it who may have deleted it from their phone. Please also advise as to how I remove the 'Opera mini 8 is now available' reminder nag from version 7 permanently and not just 'remind me later'.

d-wa

d-wa

@tinman989 in case no one gonna help :

why you can't remove saved pages and bookmars from speed dial is that it is the only way you could access them. feeds included.

I agree with you with the white colour. as I've already mentioned in some of my previous posts, we really need a theme colour options. like in old opera 4 on our java phones.

for the layout, they seems to try to maximize the viewing area and minimize the address/navigation bar. I guess they haven't check how it went on a small screen.

and for the purpose to retain the old UI we got classic layout. It's the only thing there is to it.
Or maybe they need to add theme option regarding the colour AND the layout?

baunz

baunz

This issue about dark or black shades saves battery is only for oled displays... Clearly yours is not oled... both the Aces..... if you understand well lollipop and most of material apps... are colourful and black isn't one of them....
The user interface of opera mini 8 is great... just put full screen and the white background won't be visible anymore....

vigneshlin

vigneshlin

giving the theme options like dark, white or black red would be a welcome addition

richardus2099

richardus2099

How can I manage search engines? I can't seem to be able to delete or modify them
How can I disable the suggestions I get every time I type in the search/address bar? it makes my mobile phone sluggish
I want to have a separate search box from the address bar, so my spell checker works!

The only reason I kept opera was the two boxes. Now this browser is totally behind Chrome and Firefox, because they're faster in my phone than this one, so if I cannot solve these issues, I'm going to uninstall it.

Thanks.

baunz

baunz

To delete the search engines... you swipe to the right... to add...am not sure.

Seem like you should stick to opera mini 7.6.4... to get separate address and search box...

I like the combination of both the search and the address... Makes things clean and easy to use.

regfav

regfav

Please let us open images in the current tab.
Opening in a background tab should be an option.

Thanks.

barsk

barsk

To add search engines you visit the search engine you want to add and then long press on the search field to open up the context menu. There you will find an option to add the search engine (this is the same way as it was done in Mini 7).

kirox317

kirox317

This method does not work with websites like www.ixquick.com
Is there any way to add this search engine?
How to change the default search engine? After restart it is always Google.

d-wa

d-wa

Opera Mini default search engine can't be changed since forever.

why asking just now?

vigneshlin

vigneshlin

no it used to remember search engine last selected in older versions

d-wa

d-wa

but not until restart.

maybe you confuse it for multiple tabs search. now each tab remember its own last used search engine. start with Google obviously.

kirox317

kirox317

it would be really awesome to change the default search engine pemanently, because not everyone is happy with google I guess

d-wa

d-wa

ya think?

two words for you: Google pays.

klaipedaville

klaipedaville

Hello there!

I would be really thankful if anybody could advise on jquery's weird behavior in opera mini 8 (full version is 8.0.1807.91281). When the following code is placed directly in head tags it works,

<head>
<script src="jquery.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#hasphone').show();
$('#hasmail').show();
});
</script>
</head>

However, trying to keep my head nice and clean and doing the following simply stops this simple function's execution. I created my show.js file, placed it in my head and also referenced jquery like this:

<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="show.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.min.js"> </script>
</head>

Then I placed my simple function inside my show.js file like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
$('#hasphone').show();
$('#hasmail').show();
});

It works fine in all the major browsers I tested it in (Opera Classic, IE, Safari, Chrome, FF) but it just fails in opera mini 8. Could anybody advise please, what I am doing wrong here? My vague guess is that opera mini 8 has its rendering stuff off this browser and does it remotely via their servers, that's why the only way for it to work in opera mini is to put the code directly in head. I am not sure I am on the right track here but that's the only workaround I've found so far to force it work in opera mini 8.

Would appreciate any help /comments at all as this thing slowly starts driving me crazy Many thanks in advance!

klaipedaville

klaipedaville

I upgraded to jquery 1.11.3 and keep the lines in this order now:

<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.11.3.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="show.js"> </script>
</head>

I removed one extra closing bracket from the line below right after jquery.js:

<script src="jquery.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>

so the correct line looks like this:

<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

However, that did not help. The trick was in my other scripts' order. That is I reversed the order I had and it started to work. For example I had script1, script2, script3 placed like this:

<script src="script1.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="script2.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="script3.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>

Now I have changed it to:

<script src="script1.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="script3.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="script2.js"> type="text/javascript"></script>

and it all revived. Hope it will help someone out there. Make sure you check / experiment with your scripts' places and chances are it will work for your as well. Just remember it all has to go coherently and successively.