Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
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Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
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Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#2Yay. The only reason I still tested for opera support was their rather popular mobile browser. Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#3I've pushed this to my Galaxy Nexus, but my Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2-based) running latest 4.2.2 from source is listed as not compatible.
Anyone from the Opera team able to provide a reason for this?
Edit: What ewams said. As stated in the article, Opera has restricted tablet-support so far.
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#4Feels slower on my Galaxy S Plus. I'll try it a bit more, but the first impession ain't good...
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#5I've pushed this to my Galaxy Nexus, but my Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2-based) running latest 4.2.2 from source is listed as not compatible. Anyone from the Opera team able to provide a reason for this? Edit: What ewams said. As stated in the article, Opera has restricted tablet-support so far.
From the article: "Note that we don't have an Opera 14 build ready for tablets yet: we're still working on various tablet-specific UI optimizations, and this will be released later on."
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#6This nicely highlights a problem I see with controlled app store models. I would like to give this a try but looking at reviews I feel like I might not like it (always visible address bar, bigger text). So I might want to downgrade which is not "allowed".
I am glad they let users move the navigation bar to the bottom, that is much easier to reach with one hand.
I wish there were site specific preferences like on the desktop version. Being able to block image loading for selected websites or forcing a css mode would greatly reduce my bandwidth costs and increase readability.
A great feature of Opera Mobile is that you can save pages for later offline reading.
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#7Feels slower on my Galaxy S Plus. I'll try it a bit more, but the first impession ain't good...
Really sluggish on the Note 2 too. Even Chrome is faster.
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#8My personal favorite feature in Opera for Android is that it's available for Android 2.3 and up. That means you can get a modern and secure(!) browser on old or low-end phones that otherwise would never get a modern browser.
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#9I've pushed this to my Galaxy Nexus, but my Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2-based) running latest 4.2.2 from source is listed as not compatible. Anyone from the Opera team able to provide a reason for this? Edit: What ewams said. As stated in the article, Opera has restricted tablet-support so far.
Have you tried Firefox? I have an Acer tablet with the same Tegra, and I found the interface and responsiveness much better.
Re: Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium
#10My personal favorite feature in Opera for Android is that it's available for Android 2.3 and up. That means you can get a modern and secure(!) browser on old or low-end phones that otherwise would never get a modern browser.
Opera 14 is almost unusable on my old Nexus S (Android 2.3).