16 Facts About Opera Mini

Opera Mini was derived from the Opera web browser for personal computers, which has been publicly available since 1996.

Opera Mini was originally intended for use on mobile phones not capable of running a conventional Web browser.

Opera Mini 4 includes the ability to view web pages similarly to a desktop based browser by introducing Overview and Zoom functions, and a landscape view setting.

Since 20 November 2009, there have been reports from Chinese users that when they use Opera Mini, they are redirected to an error page leading them to download Opera Mini China version.

Opera Mini agreed to route all of their traffic through government servers.

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Opera Mini was released for Windows Phone six days later, on 9 September 2014, as a public beta.

Opera Mini uses a server to translate HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a more compact format.

Opera Mini can operate in three compression modes: "mini", "turbo" and uncompressed.

Functionality of the Opera Mini mode is somewhat different from a conventional Web browser, with the amount of data which has to be transferred much reduced, but with some loss to functionality.

However, unlike the desktop edition of Opera Mini, frames are flattened because of client limitations, and dotted or dashed borders are displayed as solid borders due to bandwidth and memory issues.

Opera Mini can send content in bitmap image form if a font required is not available on the device, which is useful for indic scripts.

Opera Mini has published Web content authoring guidelines to assist authors.

Opera Mini can run in Turbo and Uncompressed modes, in addition to Mini mode.

Opera Mini servers act as a proxy which compresses and renders the data of web pages before sending it to users.

Opera Mini relies on data centers processing the Web page before sending it back to the phone in a compressed binary form.

Opera Mini Software operates data centers in the United States, Norway, China, Korea, Poland and Iceland.