Opera Mobile is Flash capable; comes with Opera Link – a bookmark/speed dial/notes synchronisation service - and Opera Turbo – a web page compression service using Opera servers that reduces bandwidth consumption by up to 80%. (So its a must have if you have slower Internet connections while roaming).
Apart from being touch friendly Opera Mobile 11.5 works smoothly with Mouse and keyboard unlike the version 11 of the Browser, you just need to change the user agent from Tablet to Desktop and disable the on screen keyboard in settings for better performance with mouse and keyboard.
Installing Opera Mobile 11.5 on your Ubuntu desktop.
Since the Linux version of Opera Mobile is available in RPM package, you first need to download the alien and fakeroot utilities from apt repositories, to convert the rpm file into a deb installer.
- $ sudo apt-get install alien
Once you are done with the above steps, you are ready to install Opera Mobile 11.5 on your Ubuntu desktop.
- $ sudo apt-get install fakeroot
You can download the rpm package for Opera Mobile from here.
Change to the download directory, issue the following command to convert the rpm package into a deb installer.
After a while, you will get the converted deb installer for installation.
- $ fakeroot alien Opera_Mobile-Labs-MeeGo-11.50-39.i386.rpm
After a successful install you can find the Opera Mobile browser in the Internet section of your menu Items.
- $ sudo dpkg -i opera-mobile-labs-meego_11.50-40_i386.deb
Opera Mobile might not be a very great browser for day to day browsing on your laptop but it can serve you as a very handy tool while moving or traveling (with Opera Turbo enabled) with slower Internet connections.
Happy Browsing :)