[eksasol]

Since my Sprint cap my connection to 15kb/s where I live, they are both slow. But Opera 9.5 is god awful slow on the software performance side. Of course, I greatly dislike the zoom bar which is unnecessary because for 10 beta you can set the font size to 18pixels minimum and its consistent throughout. Texts on all pages are readable without needing to zoom, and you can turn on zooming as well.

Unfortunately, version 10 lost this consistency and the fonts are whacked out. Therefor, I switched to Opera Mini which has that consistency. Also Opera Mini download the data to Opera server and compress the data to send to my phone, its greatly improve the loading speed for my slow connection at the cost of further losing my privacy.

Also if you set the option for Opera view as Desktop instead of Mobile then it should display the page as desktop view all the time, so I don't know whats the problem there.