Posts made by whatever999

Totally agree with all here: I'm on 7.6.40125 & always ignore Opera Mini pestering me to update. That was mainly because the (deliberately) stupid update promotion never mentions if you'll lose all your bookmarks & saved pages, presumably because Opera refuses to provide a way to back them up, & they can't provide THAT because they've buried the bookmarks & saved pages deep in the phone's non-user (=anti user) system.
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Then I saw on my wife's Opera Mini (more recent) that she can't turn off image loading! That's an absolutely vital feature coz of the terrible signal strength in rural UK (due to margaret thatcher refusing to grasp that COmmunication is an intrinsically CO-operative action, so we have 10 squabbling, overstretched networks here, instead of 1 that works).
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Turning off images at the start of a session is actually a great way to block Opera's data allowance-wasting "interstitial" & "adsense" bulls**t, probably why they removed it.

Yes, the usual arcane sadism, of course (config //dat.m.fil_sys.///satan_index:rep.fil.666#_bin:\list: blah blah blah ad nauseum infinitum), don't even know if you're supposed to have 'rooted' (ooh matron!) your phone... But there must've been something useful there or they wouldn't have closed it almost immediately!

It would also help if the ENDLESS PESTERING to update my version of opera mini included some reassurance that doing so won't void all my saved pages & bookmarks. Completely obvious requirement - which can only mean that the omission is deliberate.

Like i said, easiest (non-rooting) way is copy/paste each saved page url from Opera Mini into UC-browser; reload the page; then use UC's free save-page add-on (makes .mht, .html or .txt in FINDABLE user location). Slow but it works. It also punishes Opera by increasing UC's popularity, hopefully motivating Opera to stop working against us.

Rooting your phone is just wandering into another minefield. They'd love you to do that, so you lose everything on your phone, as well as the saved pages. It's all just a Satanic trial to see what your breaking point is.

Btw, people stating that saved pages aren't supposed to be kept long term (wtf¿) Yeah, just go down to your local reference library / bookshop / university / translator of ancient religious / mystical manuscripts etc etc etc... Just pull all those 'saved pages' off the shelves & burn them. I mean some of them have been around for weeks, completely out of date, can't possibly have any value.

Seriously, WTF???

+1 rhmini, too damn right! In fact the only working fix I've found for this RIDICULOUS problem is copy/pasting Opera Mini's saved page URL into UC Browser, then re-saving (!!!!!) with that UC save-page add-on (creates .html .mht or .txt); there's another very nice addon that makes .pdfs. Both are free and both save to EXTERNAL & ACCESSIBLE directories!

The Android system partition is NOT meant for user data, not that I could find the path mentioned above with the [fairly penetrating] ES File Explorer on my unrooted phone, (search for "Opera" from top level "/Device" also found nothing). I'm not going to root my device, life is just way, way too short.

Opera Mini devs... I love most of your work but this is total madness.