Does anyone have problems using Opera Mobile to view ts?. e various Gawker websites such as Lifehacker and Gizmodo? Whenever I click on a link to an article, only the left side and top part of the website loads, but the main window where the article is supposed to be remains blank.
The mobile layout displays fine, but I prefer the desktop layout. Stock and Dolphin don't have problems but I much prefer Opera Mobile for its better text reflow handling.
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So I installed Opera mini a few days ago and fell in love with it. Very nice clean interface, renders forums like a dream, fast, etc.
I have the ATT Tilt btw running the factory ROM and have about 50MB of free Program memory when I fire Opera Mini up.
My situation is this, say I open this Kaiser forum up and read some new posts, then go back a couple pages, then open say Google or whatever. It seems to slow way down (scrolling, menu selection) after I've visited a forum at least once. I even notice if I hit the back button it looks like when it browses back it slides the forum page off to the right, almost like it's tabbed browsing without the tabs.
If I close and re-open it speeds back up but once I visit a forum it slows way down after the page is fully loaded until I close again.
Any thoughts or ideas are welcome, thanks.
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It seems to only be happening when viewing any forums or what seem to be longer pages. I went to digg and after checking out one story and going back a few pages it started the normal slow down.
Casual browsing of non-forum sites like espn and yahoo did not result in the slow down.
Sounds like a by product of the way opera mini works...
It effectively downloads the page to its own servers, then renders it for java, then delivers it to your device.
When you visit popular sites, they are cached and ready to go.
When you visit forums etc, the opera mini server needs to download the page or check for updated version of the page - then render it and download it.
I dont really get the Opera Mini thing at all - I use Opera Mobile 8.65 and love it.
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Sounds like a by product of the way opera mini works...
It effectively downloads the page to its own servers, then renders it for java, then delivers it to your device.
When you visit popular sites, they are cached and ready to go.
When you visit forums etc, the opera mini server needs to download the page or check for updated version of the page - then render it and download it.
I dont really get the Opera Mini thing at all - I use Opera Mobile 8.65 and love it.
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Opera Mini is fast and smooth - that counts for a lot on the WM platform which is let's face it, generally pretty 'clunky' in feel.
I like Opera Mobile too, but it can take an awful long time to render web pages. Mini on the other hand gets the information on my screen quickly, in an easy to read format and feels super slick.
But lately Opera Mini 4 beta 2 is not saving cookies, at least not for me. Each time I go to sites with passwords such as this one I have to log in with user name and password each time. Anyone else experiencing this??
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Same here, opera mini makes me sign in to yahoo everytime....is this normal?
No this is not normal as I discreetly remember that a few weeks back I needed not enter my log in info each time. So must be something wrong at their Server end. But again as yet this is yet just a Beta product.
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Hi. some websites open as wap or mobile version with the compact IV. this especially with Ebay and can't access all the features you find on normal webpage. How can I make the phone surf as a desktop? in my old various II with wm6 it had advantage options you could choose this...
You can either use Opera Mobile or change the regedit value to render full pages (try Schap's Tool).
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thanks. I tried the opera (w&w) as well but same issue. websites still recgnize it as phone and open mobile versions of the sites...
Opera has never opened up a mobile page for me. If that doesn't work, then the regedit will certainly fix it as it'll tell the website to recognize it as some desktop browser hence the reason it'll open it as a desktop page.
there is a option in settings for Opera which u can uncheck to stop it sending the Mobile info.
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Hi.. I did find that option, dont know how I missed it! However unticking it... websites like ebay.co.uk opens up with wap version... (in ebay you can choose to open the 'classic' screen although) but other websites such as www.univision.com opens as wap version even though the option is unticked in Opera...
strange.
I have the opposite problem... I can't open any wap sites in Opera, somehow it always launches the full webpage. It's not always good since I pay a lot for the data traffic. As long as I'm on WIFI it's great of course...
Opera 8.65 had an option you could set, to identify your handheld as a "desktop computer" or "handheld device". That way, when you went to a website that has both a mobile version and a desktop version, it would choose the appropriate page to load.
Is this feature in Opera 9.5? I would like to visit msnbc's mobile site on my Fuze, but it always pulls up the "desktop" version.
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In Opera, go to "Settings", then "Display", then place a check mark next to "Mobile view". That should do the trick.
I tried it, all that setting does is make the page fit on the screen with no side scroll bars. It still loads the "main" msnbc page and not the mobile version of the msnbc page.
In that case, I'm not sure what the problem is either. I just went to msnbc.com using Opera Mobile 9.5 (and Mobile View in my settings) and it showed the mobile version of the site.
Have you tried going directly to mobile.msnbc.com?
I have the opposite problem with Yahoo.com, I prefer IE to view mobile sites cause it looks better and is faster than Opera. I prefer Opera for the full sites. But Yahoo always pops up the mobile version no matter what I try. . .
I also had the same issue with the new builds and found this:
Try going to "opera:config" in the address bar and then scroll down to "user agent". The default is 0 for Opera Mobile, but you can change it to 1 to identify as Firefox or 2 to identify as IE6/7. You should restart Opera Mobile to activate the new settings.
Hope this helps!
hello, i have a small problem, after trying various registry changes etc for changing the default browser to Opera 9.5 (i have the first firmware release of x1 at moment, will change it to r3 when i have some time) i succeded to change the default browser when i click links around using XperiaTweak2...
I use my x1 a LOT with the gmail java application, is way more confortable that any other way for using my gmail account and i use it as only email, well, the problem is that even if the default browser is set to opera and works if i click links around it does not work when i click a link in the Java app for Gmail... i have tryed to use gmail from opera but with this java app is way faster and more confortable...
any idea on how i can manage to force this damn thing to open the links i click in the Gmail Java app with Opera and not with IE?
I attach here the java installer since for the x1 installing from website don't work for some reasons...
I am glad that someone thought to post this. I have been fighting this issue with my java gmail app on windows mobile for nearly a year. I had to go back to version 1.5.0.1193 instead of using the updated 2.0.6 version because in the newer version when I click on a link it locks up my entire phone and I have to do a soft reset to get the phone back to normal. In version 1.5.0.1193 I get this message immediately after I click on a link "http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%www.ebay.com" with a question asking me if I want to open this URL with a yes or no option. In this case I was just clicking on a link to take me to ebay's main website page. If I click "Yes" then IE Mobile opens (BLAH!) and it inserts "http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%www.ebay.com" in the address bar in IE Mobile and all I get is the general "The page cannot be found" error message. There are no options under "Settings" to change the default browser or how it inserts the links in the address bar. So, I have been puzzled about this for a really long time and I thought I was the only one that was bothered by this. If there are any good programmers out there that understand Java please help us with this.
just install R3A, i found out that it makes Opera the default browser for everything
EDIT: You may also find the new beta Opera Browser 9.7 useful as it has a "Set Opera as default browser" option
Is it a Windows Phone 8 feature that you can't resize text and have the reflow work?
I am using a HTC 8S and if I resize any text then it will not reflow. Double tapping will always take me bake to a default size (which is a random size for each web page) and the will reflow.
The landscape text view is larger but it is a lottery getting a readable size that will reflow.
Reading web pages is not very easy of enjoyable the way it is. I tried using the 'Ease of Use' zoom feature and the reflow fails to work correctly once you have zoomed (that is really bad).
I am finding the web experience awful and being able to read is web page is fundamental. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Yep it's crap compared to android
It is worse than crap. If I big smelly crap then had a crap it would be WP8 IE