A couple of decades ago, at the dawn of the mobile age, I installed Opera Mini on my Nokia 6151 phone. It seemed like a great app but I never actually used it as I couldn't justify an expensive data plan.
Matyáš Racek reminishes on the design decisions and features that made Opera Mini so good.
A modern competitor to #OperaMini with:
Why?
OFC since #Opera #Mini needs a trustworthy proxy backend any "#clone" would need an #OpenSource'd & #SelfHosting-capable #backend (similar to @ActionRetro 's #FrogFind .com as it breaks #E2EE.
Needless to say it would be a godsent for anyone stuck on #EDGEland and slower speeds (i.e. #SATCOM like #Iridium)...
So I installed #OperaMini for the first time in years and years ...
... and it seems it now supports full client-side interactivity instead of going back to the server.
Has anyone had recent experience with it? Has the proxy browsing approach been discontinued? There is no info on Opera Mini beyond 2017 or so to be found online.
@katnjia @peter yeah, it's such a shame to see a once great name, now stand for such negativity...
I used the #OperaBrowser extensively for a period, most notably because it offered tabs and mouse gestures before any of the other #browsers did. On #mobile their #OperaMini and later #OperaMobile #browser was also a better alternative than the native browsers that were common at the time.
Now it's just a weak-ass #Chrome derivative that doesn't seem to offer any innovative features.
