OPERA MINI WEB BROWSER
Opera Mini is a web browser designed primarily for smartphones and personal digital assistants. Until version 4 it used the Java ME platform, requiring the mobile device to run Java ME applications. From version 5 it is also available as a native application for Android, iOS, Tizen, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. It previously supported Bada,Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry. Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported mainly through deals with mobile operators to have Opera Mini pre-installed in phones,[12] and other sources of revenue such as search advertising deals, licensing[14] and paid bookmarks and Speed Dial placement.[15]
Opera Mini was derived from the Opera web browser for personal computers, which has been publicly available since 1996. Opera Mini began as a pilot project in 2004. After limited releases in Europe, it was officially launched worldwide on 24 January 2006.
Opera Software claims that Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's compression proxy, the compression server process and compress requested web pages by up to 90% before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many mobile phone data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly.
In July 2012, it was reported that Opera Mini had 168.8 million users as of March 2012.[16] In February 2013, Opera reported 300 million unique Opera Mini active users and 150 billion page views served during that month. This represented an increase of 25 million users from September 2012.
Features
The display may be toggled between portrait and landscape mode by keystrokes, or will switch automatically on phones with orientation sensors. The default orientation can be changed.[28]
The image quality may be set to "Low", "Medium", or "High".[63] Page load times are affected by the chosen image quality setting.[64]
Opera Mini supports only one font,[56] which can be set to "Small", "Medium", "Large", or "Extra large" size.[63] If a web page uses Courier or a generic monospaced font, the one font is still used, but the characters are spaced out so that each character takes up the same amount of space.[56]
Browsing tools
Opera Mini has a search bar capable of using several pre-configured search engines;[65] the user can add more search engines.[63] The default search engines areGoogle and Wikipedia.
Opera Mini supports shortcut keys,[66] skins,[67] and a web feed aggregator.[68] It can save bookmarks,[69] download files,[70] save web pages for offline reading, and it remembers the user's browsing history.[71]
Since the launch of Opera Mobile Store in March 2011[72] Speed Dial of Opera Mini displays a shortcut to Opera's own mobile applications store.
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- Good support for older OS and lower-end devices
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