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As of late i have this problem where pages come up blank in Opera mini and mini beta on my old Huawei P6 (i know, i should retire it, but Opera is still pushing updates to it so...).
Weird thing is that they draw fine when i hit the tab switcher button.
I do believe the GPU on the Huawei soc may be a bit wonky, as i have observed oddities with video players in the past. So if Opera has switched to using GPU for drawing it may be a source of problems.
I agree that the search field is oversized. Especially as we keep getting suggestions in the main bar.
Also, after installing this beta i sometimes get a blank screen when going back to old tabs. The only way to get the page to show is to either hit the refresh from the 3 dot button, or tapping the address bar and hitting enter. Apparently either action do not trigger a full reload of the page via the server, just a refresh of the display. And no, the pull down to refresh action do not work when this bug is in effect.
I'm having a minor issue across my 4.x devices where the UI goes invisible.
The buttons can be pressed and all that, but i can't see any of them.
Also, whats up with the "default browser" query not taking a no for a no? I keeps showing up at random intervals. This level of nagging is not nice, Opera.
I for one would not mind seeing the classic tab system make a return. The current one waste so much time in its swiping and oversized previews.
With Opera classic and the old mini, i could have something like 10 tabs open and quickly switch between them. With the new interfaces i can barely have 3 up, add a 4th and i have to swipe back and forth to get to either end.
And no, the tablet view is not a replacement. It too is severely limited in the number of tabs it can show at once (somewhere between 4 and 6 depending on device orientation), and makes for a even smaller target to interact with than the previews.
Basically the "bookmarks" part of the new system is an afterthought.
Keep in mind that when they re-launched Opera, there was no bookmark system. We were instead supposed to use the quick launch system as a "bookmarks" system, this according to the hairbrained UI scheme some designer cooked up on iPad (Opera Coast or some such).
Then they realized this was unwieldy for anything but a small number of often used pages, and so added "folders". But even that proved limied, so they caved and added bookmarks back in, as a special entry on the quick launch page.
Face it people, the Opera company of today is not the same as the one that built the 12.x desktop, the original Mini and Mobile browsers. The current one is hung up on design for designs sake, and about chasing some internet "zeitgeist". What used to be a company run by engineer is no run by professional managers and cloudcuckoolander designers.
I just wish that the tab switcher from the classic Opera mobile/mini ui was available. The current options are bloated and fiddly by comparison.
Oh, and could we perhaps get favicons back into the bookmarks manager?
I really do miss the old semi-overlapping tab switcher of the old Opera apps. Made it so much faster to switch tabs than these over-designed full screen transitions.
The mini-switcher kinda helps, expect it goes bye bye on portrait orientation.
I really don't get the modern Opera. You guys had a winning app. You could just as easily have flattened the existing UI to keep with the trend, and that was it. But no, you guys had to go design trend crazy.
And you can't even get it to behave properly at different display resolutions...
For some reason the newer Opera versions have awkwardly small UI elements on my older Android tablet.
Even weirder, the newer Opera Mini releases seems to do a better job of scaling the UI.
Can't say the full screen view is any improvement over the older mobile tab view, and neither of those were an improvement over the old Opera Mini interface.
This because while on the old interface i could have some 10 tabs open and switch between them with a couple of taps, now i have to scroll across the screen multiple times to get from one end to the other with the same amount of tabs open.
if the full screen view offered a grid display, perhaps it would have been an improvement. But as it is now it is simply a change of eye candy.
I see that Mini 7.6 has been delisted on Play, much as with Opera Mobile Classic.
As such, can we expect it to be made available from http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/versions/ ?