If you want to delete your cookies, clear your browsing history, erase stored passwords, or clean up other privacy liabilities you'll have to take a trip to the bowels of the settings menu. And don't tell me that I can toggle tabs in Opera Mini with a keypad combo memorizing keyboard shortcuts has been obsolete since the death of WP5.1 and MS-DOS. If UC Browser can do it, Opera Mini can do it too. The cursor should go all the way up to the tab bar. Opera Mini 5 comes with tabbed browsing, but changing tabs requires a trip to the menu, because in normal page view the cursor gets stuck just below the tab bar. This may work on a computer screen with a mouse, but it gets annoying real quick when you have to use the four-way navigation button on the keypad of a non-touchscreen phone. This menu bar comes with shortcuts to the home screen, back/forward/reload buttons, an exit key, and a dropdown menu to go to your bookmarks and settings etc. But Opera Mini has a horizontal menu bar near the top of your screen. Just about every Symbian program launches a standard cascading menu layout when you hit the left softkey. For example, the menu could use an overhaul and tabbed browsing could be made a lot easier.
More good stuff: the hidden settings page of the old Java version also works in the new Symbian version of Opera Mini.īut there's still plenty of room for improvement. Scrolling through websites is a lot faster than it used to be, your cursor runs way smoother than back in the Java days, and your phone's predictive text input now works in Opera Mini too. But even so, one stored access point is better than nothing. Too bad that it can only remember a single access point instead of an access point group, a.k.a. Also gone are the repeated requests to define an access point because Opera forgot your choice of five seconds ago. Gone are the security warnings (Do you really want your web browser to go online? Duh!). The new Opera Mini for Symbian loads much faster than the old Java application. The good news: we no longer have to suffer the limitations of mobile Java when we use Opera Mini, because now there is a real Symbian version of the program. But this made the program start and run as slow as quicksand, and spit out an endless stream of security warnings and repeated requests for permission to go online. This made things easier for the developers, because they could make a "one size fits all" installer that works on every phone that supports mobile Java. The bad news: Opera Mini was coded in Java. Opera Mini is an excellent web browser for Symbian, mainly because of its tabbed browsing and its proxy server that compresses data to reduce data traffic and increase speed.
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