There is another undocumented "Power Users" settings menu hidden in Opera Mini. To access it enter the URL config: in Opera Mini's address bar and select "OK" or "Go To". A screen similar to the one in the bottom image should appear.
Power User Settings include
Large
placeholders for images.(Default:Yes) If you have images turned off or
Opera Mini doesn't have enough memory to load all the images on large
pages it will show colored boxes which by default have the same
dimensions as the original images.
Choosing No is supposed to make Opera
Mini use smaller boxes which I think I'd prefer. Unfortunately this
option doesn't seem to work, I still get the large boxes with it set
No. Aside: I'd really wish Opera Mini would follow web standards and
display the image's Alt Text when can't display an image.
Fit
text to screen (Default:Yes) In desktop mode, Opera Mini reflows text
columns so they fit the screen's width for easy reading. This is
generally a good thing but it can make parts of pages look ugly and
cause overlapping text, especially in tabbed menus. Changing this
setting to "No" will cause the page to be rendered just like it would be
in a desktop browser. While this makes the page prettier, it also means
you have to scroll back and forth horizontally on every line to read
text. I tried it and quickly set it back to the default!
Very Useful
Use
bitmap fonts for complex scripts (Default=No) Opera mini normally uses
your phone's built in fonts which generally have characters for only a
handful of languages. If you try to view a Chinese webpage with a phone
that doesn't have Chinese fonts all you will see is a bunch of squares
in the place of characters. Setting this option causes Opera to render
the text of any language your phone doesn't support as an image of the
the text. This will make the page load more slowly but at least you will
be able to read it. Apparently quite a few languages supported by this
feature. I haven't been able to find a list but users have reported
that they were able to view Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean
and Bengali pages using this feature.
Loading Timeout
(default:30) This is my favorite Power User setting.It specifies how
seconds the Opera Mini server should wait for a 3rd party web server to
respond before giving up and displaying a timeout message. There are
some slow sites on the web aznd 30 seconds is just too short. Before
this error was added I'd often get a timeout on HowardForums.com or if I
asked Bloglines to show all the posts in my subscribed feeds for the
last 24 hours. I set the timout to the maximum allowed, 3600 seconds,
and now I never see timeouts. If a site is really down or I get tired
of waiting, I just press the right softkey labeled STOP to make Opera
mini give up. Pressing STOP works fine on my phones although it can
cause lockups on Palm OS devices. If you have one of those you might be
better off setting the timeout to 60 or 120.
Show feedindex
(default:Yes) The default causes Opera Mini to show an RSS feed icon at
the top on any page that has a feed. Clicking the icon adds the feed to
Opera Mini's built in feed reader.I don't use the Opera Mini reader
because it doesn't synchronize with anything and seems to lose my
subscribed feeds with every server upgrade. If you are serious about
feeds you will want to use Bloglines or Google Reader as your feed
reader in Opera Mini. I do like to see the feed icon though as it tells
me when a site has a feed that I can add to Bloglines using a
bookmarklet.
Keep styling in RSS feeds (default:No) As I mentioned I
don't use Opera Mini's built in feed reader but I'd think changing this
to Yes would improve the appearance and formatting of feeds in Opera
Mini. It seems strange that it defaults to No.
Fold linklists
(default:Yes) When Opera Mini is in mobile view it will replace long
lists of links with a plus sign graphic. Clicking the plus sign will
expand the list. The intention is to make large repetitive menus less
intrusive. I set this to No as it tends to collapse things I want to
see like news headlines or the list of unread feeds in Bloglines.
Phonenumber
detection (default: Yes) Opera Mini tries to detect plain text phone
numbers in web pages and turn them in click to call links. When this
feature first came out is was buggy and tended to treat "1 2 3 4" page
menus on web forums etc. as phone numbers so that clicking them tried to
dial 1234 instead of loading the next page.That bug has been fixed and I
don't see any reason to disable the very useful phone number detection
feature.
Minimum phone number length (Default:9) Numbers less
than this length will never be detected as phone numbers. US phone
numbers are 10 digits so you could set it to that, although leaving at
nine seems to work fine.
While most of the Power User settings are of
limited use I'm really happy about the ability to increase the Loading
Timeout and to turn off linklist folding. Although I don't use it
(English is my only language) the ability to use server side bitmaps to
display character sets that the phone doesn't support is another great
feature. I'm glad the Power User Settings are there although I think
Opera should make them easier to find.
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Open Mini’s Hidden Power User Menu By telecominfo.in
Posted by Just Watch All Over World on 10:24
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