Opera 14 for Android is out, based on Chromium

Just installed it on my Nexus One, agent is set to Desktop. Reddit (.compact) and other sites are rendered with a serif font now, scrolling is not fluid anymore but jerking in "waves". If I scroll fast everything is displayed blurred.<p>It lost all my cookies.<p>Font sizes are all over the place, sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. It does not render like the desktop anymore. Zooming in, the text is not wrapped to fit the window width (GOD WHY, this feature was fantastic and intuitive, who on earth would not want that and why?) (you can re-enable it in the settings). With text wrapping re-enabled it takes ~10 seconds (I counted on heise.de) to render when I zoom in. On HN it is slightly faster (6-7s).<p>It does not display the state of downloading in the address bar (or anywhere) anymore so I cannot prematurely stop loading a heavy website when I just want to read text.<p>There is a second+ delay between clicking the X or refresh icon and the resulting action in the address bar. Same for clicking links in webpages (the indication of what you clicked is much less visible than before).<p>Overall verdict: Quite unusable on my device because of being very slow. User interface has regressed. This is terrible (and I say that as a Opera fanatic). I am glad I kept a backup of the apk so I can downgrade.

Is there any way to force it to keep the assets for open tabs in the web page cache?<p>If I have a few tabs open I should be able leave the browser, run enough stuff (take a call, play a game, text) to force the browser code to flush from memory, and come back and view the pages I have open without having to endure ANY reloading.<p>This seems to be a problem with all the android browsers I've tried.

Has anybody tried this out on Hacker News? How does it display comments? The current (previous?) version handled this beautifully and was pretty much the only reason I used it as my default browser (chrome for instance is a total and utter FUBAR when it comes to text wrapping making in unusable (and I can't believe they still haven't fixed this)).

Looks like they didn't forward port opera:config and don't have a chrome:flags page so far either (or opera:flags). It's a little laggy on my galaxy nexus, but no gesture based controls like the stock browser is kind of disappointing since opera (desktop) is always known for its gestures.<p>Text reflow working is nice though.

This nicely highlights a problem I see with controlled app store models. I would like to give this a try but looking at reviews I feel like I might not like it (always visible address bar, bigger text). So I might want to downgrade which is not "allowed".<p>I am glad they let users move the navigation bar to the bottom, that is much easier to reach with one hand.<p>I wish there were site specific preferences like on the desktop version. Being able to block image loading for selected websites or forcing a css mode would greatly reduce my bandwidth costs and increase readability.<p>A great feature of Opera Mobile is that you can save pages for later offline reading.

My personal favorite feature in Opera for Android is that it's available for Android 2.3 and up. That means you can get a modern and secure(!) browser on old or low-end phones that otherwise would never get a modern browser.

I've used opera for ever. On my old symbians, my win boxes and even on my netbook (ubuntu)<p>but since I read that they moving off their own engine to webkit who cares.

I've pushed this to my Galaxy Nexus, but my Asus Transformer TF101 (Tegra2-based) running latest 4.2.2 from source is listed as not compatible.<p>Anyone from the Opera team able to provide a reason for this?<p>Edit: What ewams said. As stated in the article, Opera has restricted tablet-support so far.

Feels slower on my Galaxy S Plus. I'll try it a bit more, but the first impession ain't good...

It's really <i>really</i> slow.

I was long time Opera fan, but since sometime it's getting from bad to worse. For me Dolphin is the best browser for Android. On desktop I use Firefox, but mobile version has problems with rendering fonts.

This is one that I think, barring a critical security concern, I'll give a couple of days before adopting. At least.

Yay. The only reason I still tested for opera support was their rather popular mobile browser. Good to see them move to chromium. One less testcase