Opera Mini 5 beta offers tabbed browsing

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    Opera has released a beta version of its latest mobile-phone web browser, Opera Mini 5.

    The beta, which introduces tabbed browsing, touchscreen operations and password management to the popular browser, was announced on Wednesday.

    "The purpose of doing a beta is testing," the Opera Mini team said in a blog post on Wednesday. "Opera Mini 5 has been in development for a long time and we feel it's about time to push the product live and let you take it for a spin. We rely heavily on your feedback to polish it for the final release."

    Opera Mini is the most lightweight of the company's browsers, and is available as a free download. Opera Mobile is a more full-featured version that is available as a paid-for browser, but is often sold by the company to handset manufacturers for pre-installation.

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    Opera Mini 5 is the first version of the company's smallest browser to include tabs for the loading and viewing of multiple web pages.

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    Users of touchscreen phones are now able to use touch functionality in Opera Mobile. Version 5 of the browser includes a soft keypad, as well as touch-based navigation capabilities.

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    The beta of Opera Mini 5 allows the user to cut and paste text from web pages.

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    Speed Dial is another feature included in Opera Mini.

    The feature presents the user with small thumbnails of their most-visited websites when they start the browser.

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    Opera Mini 5 will, as with previous versions of the lightweight browser, work on most Java-capable handsets.

    However, the beta is the first version of the browser to be made available in a native BlackBerry flavour, which tailors functions such as the opening of links and cutting-and-pasting to RIM's platform.

    According to Opera, an Android version of the new browser has not yet been developed, but the Mini team is "working on it".

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The Norwegian company has released a beta version of Opera Mini 5, the latest iteration of its lightweight mobile browser

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Opera has released a beta version of its latest mobile-phone web browser, Opera Mini 5.

The beta, which introduces tabbed browsing, touchscreen operations and password management to the popular browser, was announced on Wednesday.

"The purpose of doing a beta is testing," the Opera Mini team said in a blog post on Wednesday. "Opera Mini 5 has been in development for a long time and we feel it's about time to push the product live and let you take it for a spin. We rely heavily on your feedback to polish it for the final release."

Opera Mini is the most lightweight of the company's browsers, and is available as a free download. Opera Mobile is a more full-featured version that is available as a paid-for browser, but is often sold by the company to handset manufacturers for pre-installation.

Caption by: David Meyer

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