Posts made by ngamer01

Just to know, why don't Mobile Team announce new betas in their blog like Desktop Team does?

They already do that...sometimes. They recently just made a new post about a new Opera for Android beta being available in Google Play... Except it hasn't appeared in Google Play yet, the Opera for Android 26 beta 1 is still the latest Opera for Android beta listed in Google Play. <.<

Mobile Team also made the announcement of a Opera Mini 8 for Android beta, but that has to be discussed over in the Opera Mini board, not here.

The current 26 beta is performing much better than 25's beta. There are two things though with Off-Road enabled.

1. For some pages like http://gonintendo.com/m/, when you scroll to the bottom, for some reason you can't reach the footer (has the link to that site's mobile forums). You have to scroll up and then scroll down to reveal the footer.

2. This is more of a wish, but there should be an option to view an image's dimensions and file size when viewing an image directly in off-road mode like how Presto's off-road allowed. Perhaps the option can also offer some basic image resizing/cropping to further reduce data usage when downloading images (say wallpapers) too?

There is a full screen mode in Opera for Android, but it's only implemented if you can rotate your phone to landscape mode.

See the far bottom right icon in the linked picture. Unfortunately the URL bar will only hide when you scroll down and comes back when you scroll up a page.

I just recently got a Samsung Galaxy s4 phone (with Android 4.4) and downloaded Opera Mini 7.6 Android to it. The UI is so tiny on my screen (1080x1920). If there's a Mini version 8 coming to Android, please consider bigger UI for higher-resolution screens.

Well I'm back on Opera Mobile 24 thanks to a situation beyond my control that resulted in me getting a new Galaxy s4 phone with Android 4.4. So I'm good with Opera Mobile 24 again. I don't know if ICS users are still having the same off-road display problems I had on my Exhilarate device though.

Do you see this problem in both Off-Road and normal modes? Sorry for the lack of replies. I haven't been here in a week.

Off-road doesn't seem to save as much data as older Off-Road/Turbo which used Presto. Data savings worsened going from 82% (Presto) to 30% in the beta.

Hopefully these issues can be worked on as I get the feeling Opera wants to eventually retire the Presto servers and repurpose them for other uses.

Are you able to use pinch-to-zoom any? Also what webpages are you seeing this problem on?

The release broke Off-road's displaying of multiple websites. Everything is more zoomed in, but on select sites that have a mobile layout (like Invision Power Boards' mobile skins), there is infinite scrolling left and right when that shouldn't happen normally. I have to use Opera Mini for the time being for lightweight browsing until the bugs are fixed.

I use Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate with Android 4.0.4.

@ngamer01 try opening this link and tell me what happens
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.browser

Opera Mobile with Off-Road active prompts me to pick the external application to open that Google Play link. Opera Mobile with Off-Road disabled opens the Google Play link right in the browser.

What permissions have you set for Opera Mobile? You might need to go into your phone's settings, go Applications, find Opera Mobile, and view its app info. See if there's a "Clear defaults" option and then boot up Opera Mobile to see if it will prompt to let you pick what external applications you want (YouTube app, Google Play app, etc.) when clicking certain YouTube or Google Play links.

If that doesn't work, then you may need to view the app info of the YouTube and Google Play apps themselves to see if you can clear their defaults.

Do Android releases no longer matter in that updates get posted to the forum instead of the mobile blog? It gets kinda hard to follow and keep Opera Android properly updated if the news isn't posted around in more locations besides the forums.

He wants a "View New Posts" feature that only lists all new posts since his last logged in session. Different forum software handles this function differently.

The most common "View New Posts" feature just only shows a list of all threads with new posts where clicking a "View New Post" link or image by a thread jumps the user to the 1st new post in that thread.

Older posts won't be hidden, but will be above the 1st new post in the thread unless if the 1st new post spawned a new thread page. In case of the latter, older posts will still visible on the previous page.

You can't always expect replies. Plus Opera staff are often busy with their work, so you can't expect them to always drop what they're doing just to reply to people. Unless you want to them to slow their Opera development to a crawl in order to reply to people more, you're just going to have to be patient and await future Opera product announcements.

Whenever I start to create a new post, as soon as I start typing directly into the text box, it collapses to a single-line of text view-box, but with the lower 50-60% of the text characters missing behind a white inner border immediately above the lower gray box border. Once I've typed more than one line of text, it scrolls upward as it should and the box expands, but as a long text builds and continues scrolling upward, it finally bumps against the upper text box border where the upper 50-60% of the top-most text characters disappear behind a white inner border immediately below the upper gray box border (sort of a mirror-image of what happens to the bottom of the single-line text). The single-line-text part of this is a real annoyance, since it prevents me from "proofing" what I'm typing until/unless I put in enough text to scroll the material upward.

I was about to report this problem, but I'm glad you already posted about this. This makes it really annoying to try posting/replying to threads. I don't know if the Opera forum staff can do anything, but if it's not a problem with the forum software, Opera or myself could look into filing a bug on Mozilla's Bugzilla about this.

https://forums.opera.com/category/15/suggestions-and-feature-requests

That is the sole place to make feature requests for any Opera product. This is all you get.

Except the United States and many other nations are at rock bottom in terms of internet speeds due to either really bad monopolies or there aren't any means for (better) internet infrastructure for some reason. Making Opera a cloud-based browser is just asking to make Opera useless for more people including me.

@rafaelluik Classic layout. URL bar is at the top and the nav/tabs at the bottom.

I'm using the Samsung Exhilarate i577 with Android version 4.0.4.

Can the tab close gesture be updated to include swiping downward to close? Sometimes swiping up doesn't work as when a tab leaves the list of open tabs, it just falls back into the tab window like a bouncing ball instead of closing.

It would be awesome if the next Opera for Android update has improved tab closing gestures.

Prefetching images by having Opera for Android anticipate where you might go and grab every image from each page before you visit a page?

That sounds like a recipe for excessive data usage (even risking banning from sites that assume these prefetches are DDoS attempts). However if you want a quicker display of images, this will depend on how websites set up their image displays.

If a site has terrible image loading, either they are having server issues or they don't have good coding for loading images. You may have to contact their webmasters and ask them to speed up image loading for their domains.

Also if a website with good coding uses third party services (including for adverising), this can slow loading of websites and their images. There's nothing Opera can do about websites that poorly code or have bad servers or websites that use third parties that poorly code or have bad servers.

Also with Opera Mini's proxy and compression service, not much data is used which result in quicker image displays, however Opera Mini doesn't prefetch all images of domains you might visit.