To my amazement Apple approved the Opera Mini web browser into it’s App Store. It’s a free download and in my opinion still not worth it, the built in Safari browser is better at the main task of browsing the web.
While Opera say their browser is faster, which it is, they do this by loading web pages via their Norway based servers and compressing images before passing the page along to you. This has two problems, they over compress the images and any content that is region specific you’ll get the Norway version.
There are some bugs in the application that I’m sure will be ironed out in the next release, like pages loaded in portrait don’t resize when switching to landscape.
The guys at Opera have done a good job with the user interface bringing tabbed browsing to the forefront (something Safari has, but very few realise) and full screen mode, although burred in the settings is very nice when browsing full desktops sites.
The browser seems very stable even on those site that cash Safari Opera handles them without a quiver.
Apart from that bug, the way pages are loaded and the over compression on images Opera have a good browser here but I’m staying with the built in Safari or until Skyfire bring their browser to the app store.
