opera mini stability tips

[contradude]

my opera mini was crashing quite a bit and I was about punt my treo (in its protective case) into a wall when I decided to reinstall the palm jvm. I reinstalled it with a full install (with files out of the jsr folders as well) and now it is rock solid. I have had 0 resets / crashes on opera and i've been using it a lot over the past two weeks. I wouldn't have figured that opera mini wanted more integration in to the palm OS...

edit: when I get to my computer, I will put up the exact list of files that I installed... and I'm using both normal opera mini 4 and opera mini 4.1 beta (which is much better that the normal version)

[jbg7474]

I like opera mini too. Version 4.1 was released today.

[Treotosh]

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[jbg7474]

For anyone keeping score and not already aware, version 4.1 has a major issue for Palm OS devices. It won't load images--you just get placeholders. This is aggravating enough that I decided to delete opera mini and go back to using Blazer.

Blazer is better anyway for "mobile" formatted web pages. But I'm disappointed in opera mini.

[contradude]

I noticed that... I still have the beta somewhere... I wonder why they broke image support on palmos?

[jbg7474]

According to the opera mini forum, they say it has something to do with the instability in the beta which is caused by a memory usage problem. The developers are blaming the JVM. But Palm users are a bit miffed. Check out this thread: palm: images not loading in 4.1 final - Opera Mini - Opera Community

Here's a quote from the developers:

We are working on this, but you should know that as it is now, we have to choose between two evils:
1. Device will restart very often, but you get images.
2. Device will not restart very often, but you won't get images.

We will do our best to see if it's possible to find some sort of middle here, but it's hard.

[jbg7474]

I probably should post this somewhere else too, but a new version of OM 4.1 for Palm has been released. Opera Mini Update for Palm OS

Not loading pictures problem is almost entirely fixed.