It looks like Opera finally let everybody in on the Beta 5 secret. The new version brings quite a few new features to the table with the notable addition of tabs and a password manager. Its kind of sad that Opera beat RIM to the table on this one. Hopefully OS 5.0 will fix that. I guess its time I install Opera on my BlackBerry yet again.
What’s new in 5.0:
- Tabbed browsing
- Speed dial 1 click websites
- Touch and keypad optimizations
- Password Manager
- & More
Check out the details at www.opera.com/mini/next/ or pick it up OTA at m.opera.com/next.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1231
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM EST
wow this new browser is super fast and did away with the annoying scree while entering text
drumdog00 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 6
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:26 AM EST
Its telling me that they haven’t verified if it works on the storm but gave me the option to download it anyway or download 4. I downloaded 5 and it seems to work fine but I am not able to log in to my opera account from the settings.
drumdog00 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 6
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:28 AM EST
take that back. You can sign in to your account through the first speed dial on your homepage.
drumdog00 ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 6
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM EST
I have also never really liked how Opera doesn’t allow for sure type to work.
A Claye Jones Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:45 AM EST
It works awesome. It’s pretty fast and the user interface is awesome. I have seen a few bugs, but that’s ok since it’s a beta. One big bug I noticed on my Bold is when I’m typing something and hit delete, it deletes whatever I just typed. Not one sentence, word, or letter, all of it. That kills it for me right there.
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1231
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM EST
if only they could figured out how to play videos on the browser this would kick all the other browsers out of the game specially since those other browsers are so slow
Larry Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:15 AM EST
I have the BB Bold when you downloaded the opera broswer how did you (if you did) make it your default broswer?
rorosz ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 63
Posted: September 17, 2009 at 9:27 AM EST
You can’t yet (Luis also confirmed that). The strange thing is that when hitting links it invokes it automatically…
n8d Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 9:43 AM EST
Needs:
Shortcut keys
Automatically enter . when hit spacebar in url field.
starfleet_k Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 9:43 AM EST from my BlackBerry 9000
it works on OS 5!!!!!
The one thing I would like to see is like bolt where you have both options to enter it in while looking at the page or you can edit and paste something into the address bar or into a text field …. But oh well ….
ShvartzBerry ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 288
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:01 AM EST
One of my biggest pet peeves – on PC and BB – is applications that don’t replace their older versions. In other words, Opera 5 won’t overwrite Opera 4. You need to uninstall then reinstall. Boo!
myers6mm ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 10
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 12:32 PM EST
That’s because it’s a Beta, the final 5 will overwrite 4.
Michael Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM EST
Am I missing something? They still have not given us the ability to use this a the default browser…Say we get an email with a link in it…I want that link to open in Opera…Not the BB browser…
Hector Martinez Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM EST
Isn’t that up to RIM? Read: Will never happen.
Katie Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:39 AM EST
While it cant be set as the default browser in the configuration settings, anytime you click a link in email or any app it brings up a menu with “open in opera mini” as the only option for the browser.
Best feature by far!
Hector Martinez Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM EST
Where the hell is the RSS feature? That’s a dealbreaker for me, because I rarely visit sites unless I know they’ve been updated. What’s weird is that it has the “Add RSS” link option, but no way to actually read them. I’m assuming this will be added on in the final release.
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 1231
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM EST
no option yet to set it as default browser it be cool if we could
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 601
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:41 AM EST
I don’t get an images to load. Not from the Opera page or BBC. Am I missing something? I checked the settings and images should be loading, yet they are not
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 601
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 3:15 PM EST
Nevermind, it suddenly works now…
ShvartzBerry ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 288
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM EST
The mouse movement is annoying. It skips based on a grid. I had a checkbox I needed to check but couldn’t hit because the mouse kept skipping over it because the pointer would never land on it.
Katie Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM EST
FWIW, I changed the font size from small to medium and that seemed to help.
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) Senior admin - Posts: 5298
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:56 AM EST
WTF! Opera took over as my default browser on my Bold and there is no option to turn it off! Anybody find one?
David H Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 11:47 AM EST
I am noticing the same thing. When I click on a link in ubertwitter it takes me to Opera. This may be nice for some users but I am on a BES and if I need to use MDS services I am hosed. I like the ability but give us the option for the replacement.
Tom ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 365
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 7:43 PM EST
I noticed the same thing on my Tour (OS v4.7.1.40). I uninstalled it as it is a pain to launch OTA installers!
Anonymous Not Registered
Posted: September 19, 2009 at 8:16 AM EST
Same thing here on my Storm 9500.. highly annoying! They should at least ASK before making themselves the default!
wojtas25 ( View Profile) Beginner - Posts: 127
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:57 AM EST
its still Beta, but im ipressed with this new features and UI. Good work
David H Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM EST
Here is the link to the user forums to report bugs for Opera Mini Beta 5. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/forum.dml?id=111
Hope this helps some of you.
mh Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 1:20 PM EST from my BlackBerry 8330
New version is as crappy and slow as the old. Still does not allow pasting a url in address bar (in the old version at least I had a workaround – using insert symbol – which is now gone.
Btw, 1-key speed dial existed in the old version too.
myers6mm ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 10
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:52 PM EST
All you have to do is put your cursor on the address bar and push and hold your trackball then the options for cut, copy and paste are right there.
c0rinne ( View Profile) Enthusiast - Posts: 374
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:04 PM EST
Doesn’t work for me.
wojtas25 Not Registered
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 2:30 PM EST
i saw two other bugs. first, when u want to delete one character, it deleting all text (u cant stop the cursor). second, that in displayed text not showing “r” letter. see the article bout ” games porting” on BerryReview.
Thebyr Not Registered
Posted: September 18, 2009 at 9:22 PM EST
Yeah – I’ve noticed the same thing.. quite annoying.
Luciano ( View Profile) Moderator - Posts: 448
Posted: September 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM EST
Does anyone here use TwiXtreme? I installed Opera and TwiXtreme disappeared from my Home screen. I hated Opera, uninstalled it and had to reboot so it wouldn’t be the default browser anymore. Then TwiXtreme reappeared, but it isn’t working anymore. It launches, the bird chirps for a few seconds then TwiXtreme crashes. No error messages, it just shuts down abruptly. I installed it again, over the same installation, and the problem remained. I unsintalled it, rebooted, installed it back and the problem remains. I think that Opera ruined my TwiXtreme.
If you’re reading this, don’t install Opera. It sucks. It’s slow, the interface looks good but feels awful, obvious choices of form over function, many sites didn’t open. A mess.
FORCEPOWER Not Registered
Posted: November 23, 2009 at 11:42 PM EST
Sucks on my flip top phone. It slows and doesn’t look very good at all on my screen. Only good for all those iPhone rips. I’m going back to the old version.
Angry Opera Mini User Not Registered
Posted: December 22, 2009 at 9:04 PM EST
Great browser for everybody except those who don’t want to buy a really expensive phone. It is extremely slow on my phone. I thought that was the whole point of Opera Mini. Accessibility.
Touch Screen Phones Not Registered
Posted: March 11, 2010 at 2:19 PM EST
A little bit slow on my phone, however browser is OK.