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Opera Mini Browser for iPhone

Opera has finally released their Opera Mini Browser for iPhone. Although the last time I checked on my US iTunes account, it stills says it is not available yet for the U.S of A.



First look of this browser looks very much like any other browser. The tab browsing was very effective and unlike iPhone's Safari, you can load a page on one tab while you browse on another tab. Another thing I notice was that any Flash on a website will be presented as a static image of the Flash! This leaves me to think, Opera actually captures the image of the Flash and presents it on the browser. This ought to be a good thing for us iPhone users. No more xxx in place of the unsupported Flash.

Javascript does not seem to work so well though. I could not "mouseover" a drop down menu to show the menus. Still, I will be using this browser more extensively now because of the background loading of tabs. That alone is kick ass and warrant enough for me to switch to Opera. Now if I can find a tool or someway to import my bookmarks from Safari, that will be awesome...

Go get your Opera! (iTunes Link)