Opera Mini tops all of Apple's top app charts

I'm not sure what the hype is about. I've tried this browser, and it is not good at all. It is actually slower than Safari on 3G and wifi.

I don't know what's wrong with your device but when I use opera on edge network it loads maybe 15x faster then safari ever loaded. Usually when I'm on the go it would take forever for safari to load pages from ign.com but opera literally loads in a few seconds.. and with wifi there literally is no wait time.

The only problem with this app is the pinch zoom... I really don't like it, but other than that its solid and does it's job exactly as advertised.

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"Opera Mini tops all of Apple's top app charts". No it is not ! Not in the US or UK. Not even close.

Opera is fast for me but the pinching to zoom feature doesn't work.

And what suck is that when using the QuickTime player, it opens via Safari so although Apple signed it and allowed it onto the App store, they won't let us use it as the default browser...

Hmmm, i need this, Safari is too slow. Is the Opera app free? I have some googling to do, thanks for the article.

Originally posted by Annoyed447:

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"Opera Mini tops all of Apple's top app charts". No it is not ! Not in the US or UK. Not even close.

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This browser is awesome sure the pinch zoom is kinda funky but with time I will get used to it. No more Safari because loading time was horrible and no more checker board when scrolling down.

Originally posted by TypeRice:

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This browser is awesome sure the pinch zoom is kinda funky but with time I will get used to it. No more Safari because loading time was horrible and no more checker board when scrolling down.

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Not really a fan of proxy web viewers...
It's faster on edge because it's a proxy viewer and not direct to the net.

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Originally posted by Gnawnivek:

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Hmmm, i need this, Safari is too slow. Is the Opera app free? I have some googling to do, thanks for the article.

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Originally posted by kikzm33z:

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Opera is fast for me but the pinching to zoom feature doesn't work.

And what suck is that when using the QuickTime player, it opens via Safari so although Apple signed it and allowed it onto the App store, they won't let us use it as the default browser...

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Originally posted by gbswales:

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Originally posted by kikzm33z:

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Opera is fast for me but the pinching to zoom feature doesn't work.

And what suck is that when using the QuickTime player, it opens via Safari so although Apple signed it and allowed it onto the App store, they won't let us use it as the default browser...

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I thought the neat trick was that you just tap to zoom - so why do you need pinch to zoom

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It's really unfortunate that the features that improve Opera Mini's speed (unencrypted server-side processing) also create the biggest vulnerability for use of this app in health care.

As many electronic medical records are now web-based, passing private health information around with a lack of end-to-end encryption is frowned upon by HIPAA regulations. Essentially, Opera can see/cache/log everything you do while using the Opera Mini Browser app, including every single medical record viewed through the Opera Mini app on an iPhone or iPad since Tuesday.