The browser that ships with the TX pretty much sucks. I was really optimistic when I got it originally but it just couldn’t handle most of the sites I threw at it.
So this weekend I was really excited when I saw This (Opera Mini V2.0 Released) in my bloglines backlog.
I followed the instructions. It ended up being complicated because I had problems syncing the Java libs to the palm over IrDA. Now the browser runs and quickly crashes :(
Any one had any luck with this?
Update: It looks like a series of mistakes - the Javalib on the palm is showing as only half the file size it should be - and I accidentally installed the international version of Opera instead of the US on. Once I get syncing up again - I guess I need to take another run at it.
Update #2: Turns out you have to tweak the JavaVM on Palm TX.
Source:
These are accessed by going to Prefs - selecting IBM Java VM - on the Menu choose “Opera Mini”
"Use Double Buffering" checked (the default is unchecked)
"Use high resolution coordinates" checked (the default is unchecked)
"Set Memory Maximum:" 4 Mb (the default is 1 Mb, the maximum is 32 Mb) This didn't work for me - I had to keep it at 1Mb to do wifi
"Set Maximum Java Thread Stack Size:" 32Kb (the default is 2Kb, the maximum is 32Kb)
I managed to get the EULA and even managed to look at Slashdot - need more time to figure out if it is useful or not.
February 9th, 2007 at 12:51 am (subscribed to comments)
Hmm. Had a different issue. Mine ran and didn’t crash when using the defaults, but it absolutely refuses to correctly detect and use wifi, even when the built in browser *does* work…
February 15th, 2007 at 5:03 pm (subscribed to comments)
Actually. I can’t entirely agree on how good this thing is. Finally got it to work with the changes you suggested, but… A few problems:
Zooming. This is useless. For images big enough to do it, you can only zoom to specific zones of the image. On the screen this has, this is almost completely pointless. Worse, if the image is “small enough” to fit on the screen anyway, you can’t zoom in at all. This is quite useless is you are trying to check an online comic or anything else that has small, fixed size, lettering on it. You need a magnifying glass to read it and you can’t zoom in to see it better. Now, this may be a limitation of the API they are dealing with, but heck, I wouldn’t mind a bit of speed loss even if they had to code something to look at each individual pixel, then blow it up individually using their own code. As it exists, it doesn’t work at all.
2. Same page I tried to view the comic on *failed* to reload the page correctly after I backed out of the main image to the webpage. Everything loaded “except” the comic itself. This is a serious bug, and its not the only page that did this. The browser it comes with didn’t have that problem, even though it also didn’t even have a *basic* zoom feature.
I give Opera for Palm a thumbs down. The very things I needed a better browser for it doesn’t correct anyway.