Opera mini – Tech Raman https://techraman.com Simplified Tech Talk Wed, 04 May 2016 10:12:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://techraman.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/TR_logo-150x120.png Opera mini – Tech Raman https://techraman.com 32 32 Opera brings Ad blocker to mainstream in its desktop and mobile browser https://techraman.com/opera-brings-ad-blocker-to-mainstream-in-its-desktop-and-mobile-browser/ https://techraman.com/opera-brings-ad-blocker-to-mainstream-in-its-desktop-and-mobile-browser/#respond Wed, 04 May 2016 10:12:00 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=11057 ]]> Ad blockers are nightmare for publishers, especially independent publishers an bloggers like me for whom ads are the biggest source of revenue to keep us sustainable. Still, many users seem to install ad blockers to ‘kill’ the ads from their screen plus it also reduces the data consumption and speeds the website loading time. The sad truth for publishers is Ad blockers are here to stay. Opera introduced the Ad blocker as part of the browser setting in the developer version and today they released the stable version of Opera browser with the feature built-in. Both the Opera browser for Desktop and the Opera Mini for Android now comes with the feature that can be enabled by the user. Good news for the publisher though, if they can convince their user, they can add the website to the exception list and support their favourite websites. (If you are reading this, please support us!) The Opera browser for desktop also comes with a shield icon at the search and addres bar, which can be toggled on/off to enable or disable the feature for the webpage you landed. Opera says by integrating the ad-blocker technology directly into the browser code, the new Opera for computers speeds up page loading by as much as 89% compared to browsing without ad blocking. They also say it can be 45% faster than using a third-party ad-blocking extensions. Opera claims, the Opera Mini for Android can load webpages 40% faster when the Ad-blocker feature is enabled. By removing online ads, it can also save  on the data consumption.

How to activate the native ad-block technology in the Opera browser

Opera Mini Under the “O” menu in Opera Mini, tap the data-savings summary. From there, simply toggle “block ads” on and off. On Android, the ad blocker is available in both high and extreme-savings modes.

Opera for desktop

The integrated ad blocker can be enabled with a single click in settings. To deactivate it for a specific website, click the shield icon in the search and address bar and flip the switch. The dialog shows statistics on how many ads you’ve blocked overall, as well as on the current page. You can also compare the webpage’s load speed with and without ad blocking.  ]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-brings-ad-blocker-to-mainstream-in-its-desktop-and-mobile-browser/feed/ 0 Opera Mini for Android now offers two different data compression modes https://techraman.com/opera-mini-for-android-now-offers-two-different-data-compression-modes/ https://techraman.com/opera-mini-for-android-now-offers-two-different-data-compression-modes/#respond Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:40:55 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=9622 ]]> ]]> https://techraman.com/opera-mini-for-android-now-offers-two-different-data-compression-modes/feed/ 0 Opera Mini 9 launched for iOS, comes with 'Video Boost' feature https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature/ https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:14:47 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7977 ]]> O menu, then tap Savings Enabled, choose Opera Turbo, and toggle on Video Boost. Enjoy!  ]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature/feed/ 0 Opera Mini 9 launched for iOS, comes with 'Video Boost' feature https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature-2/ https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature-2/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:14:47 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7977 ]]> O menu, then tap Savings Enabled, choose Opera Turbo, and toggle on Video Boost. Enjoy!  ]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-mini-9-launched-ios-comes-video-boost-feature-2/feed/ 0 Opera refutes UCWeb, claims its Opera Mini browser indeed is the fastest https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/ https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:12:23 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7918 ]]> The swords are out and Opera and UCWeb are in no mood to keep them down. UCBrower recently declared that their UC browser for Android is the fastest kid around and went on to pull the rug under the rival Opera by saying the UC 9.8 is faster than Opera Mini when loading Facebook from mobile phones. It didn’t take much time for Opera to return with a vengeance and with a report on hand. Opera has now pounced back on UCWeb by not just refuting the claim but saying that unless an independent report vouches for the UC story, their in-house report card is just not credible enough. Further they have asked a third-party testing firm to conduct the tests and see how wins the lighting browser on the smartphone crown. Cigniti Technologies, an independent software testing service firm has been approached by Opera to conduct a benchmarking test to compare Facebook load times on Opera Mini vs UC 9.8. And here is what Opera claims the results are from the independent test ” Opera Mini opens Facebook 34% faster on a 3G network and 27% faster on a 2G network compared to UC 9.8” So UCWeb your turn now. For now, it is advantage Opera.

How the browser test was conducted

Cigniti conducted the performance benchmarking exercise for the Opera Mini browser on the mid-range Samsung Grand 2 device, which is one of India’s best-selling Android smartphones. It has Android KitKat 4.4.2 version with Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset, Quad-core Cortex CPU of 1.2 GHz and internal memory of 1 GB RAM. To find out the page loading time for Facebook (m.facebook.com) on Opera Mini and UC 9.8, the test was carried out using Airtel 2G and 3G mobile SIM carriers at a high signal strength. There were 250 iterations on both browsers on 3G and 2G network. The Caches and histories of each browser were cleared before every iteration and the “Page Load Time” i.e. the time taken to load the page was captured for all the iterations.]]>

]]> https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/feed/ 0 Opera refutes UCWeb, claims its Opera Mini browser indeed is the fastest https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/ https://techraman.com/opera-refutes-ucweb-claims-opera-mini-browser-indeed-fastest/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:12:23 +0000 http://techraman.com/?p=7918 ]]> The swords are out and Opera and UCWeb are in no mood to keep them down. UCBrower recently declared that their UC browser for Android is the fastest kid around and went on to pull the rug under the rival Opera by saying the UC 9.8 is faster than Opera Mini when loading Facebook from mobile phones. It didn’t take much time for Opera to return with a vengeance and with a report on hand. Opera has now pounced back on UCWeb by not just refuting the claim but saying that unless an independent report vouches for the UC story, their in-house report card is just not credible enough. Further they have asked a third-party testing firm to conduct the tests and see how wins the lighting browser on the smartphone crown. Cigniti Technologies, an independent software testing service firm has been approached by Opera to conduct a benchmarking test to compare Facebook load times on Opera Mini vs UC 9.8. And here is what Opera claims the results are from the independent test ” Opera Mini opens Facebook 34% faster on a 3G network and 27% faster on a 2G network compared to UC 9.8” So UCWeb your turn now. For now, it is advantage Opera.

How the browser test was conducted

Cigniti conducted the performance benchmarking exercise for the Opera Mini browser on the mid-range Samsung Grand 2 device, which is one of India’s best-selling Android smartphones. It has Android KitKat 4.4.2 version with Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 chipset, Quad-core Cortex CPU of 1.2 GHz and internal memory of 1 GB RAM. To find out the page loading time for Facebook (m.facebook.com) on Opera Mini and UC 9.8, the test was carried out using Airtel 2G and 3G mobile SIM carriers at a high signal strength. There were 250 iterations on both browsers on 3G and 2G network. The Caches and histories of each browser were cleared before every iteration and the “Page Load Time” i.e. the time taken to load the page was captured for all the iterations.]]>

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