Opera Mini

OPERA MINI

Opera Mini is a web Browser designed primarily for semart phones  Until version 4 it used the Java platform, requiring the mobile device to run Java ME applications. From version 5 it is also available as a native application for android iso windows . It previously supported windows . Opera Mini is offered free of charge, supported mainly through deals with mobile operators to have Opera Mini pre-installed in phones,^[

Opera Mini was derived from the for the professnol computers  which has been publicly available since 1996. Opera Mini began as a pilot project in 2004. After limited releases , it was officially launched worldwide on 24 January 2006.

Opera Software claims that Opera Mini requests web page through Opera software's compression proxy, the compression server process and compress requested web pages by up to 90% before sending them to the mobile phone, speeding up transfer by two to three times and dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred, chargeable on many mobile Phone data plans. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages not designed for mobile phones. However, interactive sites which depend upon the device processing JavaScript do not work properly.

In July 2012, it was reported that Opera Mini had 168.8 million users as of March 2012.In February 2013, Opera reported 300 million unique Opera Mini active users and 150 billion page views served during that month. This represented an increase of 25 million users from September 2012.