Opera Mini 4 released

Opera Mini 4 released
The workaholics at Opera Software have kept their promise and have hastily delivered the final release of the mobile-friendly Opera Mini 4 browser. This new version is powered by the same rendering engine as the upcoming Opera 9.5, weights less than 100kB and features:

Opera Link

- With Opera Link, you're able to instantly synchronize and share your bookmarks and Speed Dial with the Opera browser for your computer.

Overview mode

- Opera Mini 4 includes a new rendering architecture that allows you to view webpages just like you would on your computer. When you first load a webpage, Opera Mini will show you an overview snapshot of the page; using the new mouse cursor you can instantly zoom in to the selected region of the page.

Size of text fits width of screen

- Opera Mini 4 dynamically changes the size of the text on webpages to fit the width of your phone's screen, meaning you won't have to scroll horizontally.

Context menu

- A context menu is displayed when pressing the number 1 key. From the context menu you could change the viewing modes to 'Mobile view', reload the page, and show webpage information. When the mouse cursor is focused on a link, the Context menu will show you the link information (i.e. where the link points to, etc.).

Mouse cursor

- With the mouse cursor you could scroll to any direction on the page and more easily click on links.

Scrolling shortcuts

- Pressing these number key shortcuts will help you quickly navigate around the page.

2 - Page up
8 - Page down
4 - Go to the left one column
6 - Go to the right one column
5 - Zoom in and out

Create search

- With this new feature, you could add any search engine of your choice to the Opera Mini start page. To add a new search engine, click on the search field, press the menu button and click on the 'Create search' option.

View pages in Landscape mode

- By pressing the * and # shortcut keys, you could switch the page view to landscape mode.

New standards support

- Support for HTML tables, CSS handheld stylesheets, and more advanced support for CSS have been added to Opera Mini.

Bi-directional support

- With this new release we've also added support for bi-directional text, adding support for languages such as Hebrew.

Some other notable changes

- Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
- Simplified setup process
- Improved image quality
- Improved fit to width mode rendering
- Simplified settings page
- Added native blackberry menu
- Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
- New and improved server side cookie handling

To download the new Opera Mini 4 check out this page and click on the pretty green button. It's free.