“With more visual and multimedia content on the web and phones with more memory, people are starting to download more images and videos”, says Christian Uribe, Product Manager of Opera Mini at Opera Software. This new search bar is available in Opera Mini’s classic app-layout mode. Select a category for your search results – web, images, video or news – before hitting the Go button. To help you search more intuitive, Opera Mini has added updated the search bar. Searching the web is the second most-popular activity for Opera Mini users after social networking.

Decide if you want to save all downloaded files in a default location, or choose where to save them each time you download.Īccess the type of content you want more easily.Choose to download them only over Wi-Fi so they do not eat into your data plan. Get alerts when downloading large files, over 15MB.Either restrict Opera Mini to downloading between one and five files when using mobile data, or set it to unlimited to make the most out of a fast Wi-Fi connection. Control the number of files you download simultaneously.With Opera’s updated download manager you can: Around 60% of respondents said they “often” or “always” use Opera Mini for downloading content. According to a survey among Opera Mini users in India, 75% of respondents rated downloading as an “important” or “very important” feature. The default Android browser itself has most of these features, but Opera Mini 5 can still be a worthy contender considering the fact that they pipe everything through a data compression proxy before sending it to your handset, which would definitely improve your browsing speed especially when you are using 3G or GPRS.Download managers are a highly-sought-after feature in India. In addition to the tabbed browsing, Opera Mini 5 beta has The main change in this latest version of Opera mini is the introduction of “ tabbed browsing” which has become a must-have feature for all smartphone browsers these days. This comes within an year of releasing Opera Mini 4 for Android.

If you remember, couple of weeks back, we had reported that Opera Mini for iPhones will be coming soon, but now Opera has rolled out the beta release of Mini browser for Android phones. Just a few days back Opera 10.5 final was released and now Opera Mini 5 (beta) is made available for Android based phones. The developers at Opera seem to be working over-time these days.

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