[bast525]

I keep seeing people posting new Opera Mobile 9.5 builds, and everyone wants to always know oh does Flash work can I watch videos blah blah... waste of time.

Yeah the Flash Lite plug in works on some of the Opera builds but it's rediculously slow, any time you load a page with flash it usually chugs like crazy.

But one thing no one ever seems to mention or care about is the JAVA support, like support for Java applets. I have tried a LOT of Opera builds and so far only one that I've tried has really good Java applet support, as well as being the only one I've seen with the option in the settings menu to force Desktop mode, which causes most sites to load their full versions instead of loading the mobile version.

For anyone that has a Hotmail account you can test this out... try to load hotmail in most Opera builds and you can see your inbox but can't click on any mail. Or load a site like CNET and on the main page the animating applet with the top stories doesn't animate and the text is jumped.

If you want the best browsing experience on your PPC, I strongly suggest you hunt down Conflipper's Opera 9.5 build 15529!!! This build has VERY GOOD Java Applet support. Hotmail works great, CNET works great, embedded chat applets in sites that have them work great. Of course, flash still doesn't work fully, but still you get a LOT more of the 'real web' with the much better Java support!

Sorry if this came off as a bit of a rant... I just didn't get why no one seemed to care and everyone settles for these inferior builds of Opera.