Opera Mobile Beta 3 w/ Flash Support

[gmfeny]

Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 is out!!!

More Info:
Today Opera Mobile 10 moves one step closer
towards final with the release of Opera Mobile 10
Beta 3 for both Symbian/S60 and Windows Mobile.
Beta 3 includes a few new features, and a lot of
bug fixing and stabilization. Read more on http://
www.opera.com/mobile. Or download it now at
http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/ from a
PC or "m.opera.com" from a mobile phone.
New improvements include:
Windows Mobile Keypad Support:
Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 now supports keypad
devices running Windows Mobile 6 standard, and
Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone devices.
Experimental Flashlite 3.1 (Windows Mobile):
This beta also brings experimental Flash support
to Windows Mobile (touch devices only). However,
Flash performance and usability depends greatly
on how powerful your device is. On the 1Ghz HTC
Touch HD2 the overall experience is quite good.
On anything slower it varies from mediocre to
poor.
For this reason we have disabled flash by default
in the Opera Mobile settings. To enable flash goto
Tools -> Settings -> Advanced and set plug-ins to
"On".
Note that Opera Mobile has Click-to-play
functionality for plug-ins. So even when plug-ins
are enabled you activate individual Flash content
by clicking on it. This to minimize the use of
bandwith and CPU on content you may not be
interested in.
We also wanted to take the chance to thank the
Opera Mobile community for all of the great
feedback and bug reporting on the Beta 1 & Beta 2
releases. The feedback has been truly helpful and
has made a direct impact for us reaching Beta 3
status. We look forward to your feedback on
today's beta.
The main improvements from the previous betas
are:
S60:
- Complete bookmark sync in Opera Link
- Support for non-latin characters in the UI also
when phone is set to latin locale (requires
international build)
- A lot of input and keyboard related fixes
- Fixed text selection
- Visual indication of input mode also for non-latin
input modes
- General bug fixing (stability, UI)
Windows Mobile
- keypad/smartphone support
- Flash Lite 3.1 support (disabled by default)
- Complete bookmark sync in Opera Link
- BIDI support also for language extensions
- phone numbers in plain text are converted to
links
- support for background sound
- general bug fixing (stability, UI)
Known issues include:
Both:
- Opera Link: Bookmarks saved in Beta 2 are lost
when upgrading to Beta 3
- Hotmail does not work, please use the mobile
version "www.hotmail.com/m"
- Dragonfly - need to do 'connect' two times in a
row to get a connection working
S60:
- After permanently accepting an untrusted
certificate, you get an error when trying to load
the https:// page again. Workaround: In the S60
device menu go to the Settings -> General ->
Security -> Certificate Management -> Trusted
site certificates and delete the certificate for the
problematic site
Windows Mobile:
- Flash is only a preview/in alpha state, expect
instabilities, performance degradation during use
- Flash is only supported on touch devices
- Need to double-click on Flash content to view it
in full-screen, another double-click to return
- right-to-left support is not complete in the UI
- On certain WM5 Smartphone/WM6 Standard
devices, the dictionary is not disabled in the
password field
- Unable to type special characters on Moto Q9
- Certain HTC devices with TouchFLO will force
Opera back to portrait mode if visiting home
screen when Opera is in landscape
- Some input method editors are known not to
work well with Opera because they do not comply
with Microsoft's SIP and/or IME standard. When
such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use
a known (default) input method instead. An
exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad
and compact QWERTY, ABC mode doesn't work,
but the rest of the modes work fine. We
recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid
this

[Hypnotic2010]

Additional features include Flash Lite support, and due to the Click to play feature this will not slow down the browser in general use. Flash Lite 3.1 support is disabled by default, but can be enabled by visiting Tools -> Settings -> Advanced and set plug-ins to "On".
The main improvements from the previous betas are:

• keypad/smartphone support
• Flash Lite 3.1 support (disabled by default)
• Complete bookmark sync in Opera Link
• BIDI support also for language extensions
• phone numbers in plain text are converted to links
• support for background sound
• general bug fixing (stability, UI)

Cab here:

[havox22]

does it automatically have flash lite or do i need to install a additional cab?

[darren.wlsn1]

thanx to both of you.

[gmfeny]

Originally Posted by havox22

does it automatically have flash lite or do i need to install a additional cab?

it comes with flash lite built in and it works pretty good too... very fast

[gcianc]

anyone have a few reference sites/links to test the "flash" suppport? thanks!

[gcianc]

b3 has MUCH BETTER memory use. i'm at 953K wheras b2 would use 20MB to start

[gmfeny]

Originally Posted by gcianc

anyone have a few reference sites/links to test the "flash" suppport? thanks!

youtube of course

[gcianc]

gotcha.

youtube non-mobile site fails here with B3 & plugins enabled

"get the latest flash player"

interestingly opening youtube from b3 takes you to the mobile youtube site which allows videos to open quickly in the "streaming media" application. That seems to be Imagio's youtube application?

[racemepls]

The flash isn't embeded in the webpage so flash doesn't slow down the page loading speed which with b1 and b2 were an issue. Scrolling is much smoother and overall it seems more stable.