Opera Mini 9 for iOS

Today we release the Opera Mini 9 update for iOS, which improves the work with the express panel and even better compresses the thickest part of the traffic - video. In the already familiar Opera Mini on the iOS platform, three modes work under the hood: 1) normal, based on the WebView system component (essentially WebKit), 2) the same WebView with resource optimization on our Turbo servers, and 3) Opera Mini mode which draws pages on the server, compresses them and sends them to the client in a redesigned and very compact form without unnecessary shadows and animations, but it’s easier, often up to 90%.

And if the Opera Mini mode for complex media sites or applications is not always convenient to use (but reading the news in the subway or saving traffic in roaming is a nice thing), then Turbo mode will not break anything. Here, let’s say, an example: I am writing a post from a vacation in Egypt, where Habr is banned for some reason, but if you turn on Turbo, then everything is in order.


But there is little compression of pictures: the thickest and poorly compressed part of the Internet on the fly is video. I think many of you have heard about the Skyfire company, which we acquired along with their compression technologies, and the Opera Max proxy client , which compresses your system traffic by running it through a VPN tunnel. And now, in Opera Mini 9 for iOS, for the first time we show Boost mode, which, when Opera Turbo is on, compresses the video and you no longer need to watch the spinner instead of a funny video.



The Boost option is turned on in the settings and shows you how much video has been optimized since the moment it was turned on, this is also visible in the general traffic info panel. By the way, turn the phone with the info panel open - she knows where you have the bottom;)

Express panel

In addition to Turbo mode, the express panel was updated: now you can conveniently add bookmarks from the history to it using the plus button, which tells you the site from the history of visits:



It is also now convenient to edit bookmarks on the express panel - if you pull and hold one of the tiles, then two options will appear: delete and edit. That is, the express panel is closer in capabilities to the one that is in Opera for computers.

Where to get

Update :) But if you suddenly haven’t installed Opera Mini yet, then you now have a good reason: And still the same in a short video: