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Opera Mobile 10.1 for Maemo was released today.
For now it’s only available in the extras-testing repository (extras-devel for the N800/N810 build). Once the Opera team are satisfied that there are no major regressions or stability issues they will push it to their own repositories.
Here is a short changelog for this build:
- Geolocation support.
- Javascript JIT support.
- Fix garbage display after rotation due to incorrect stride.
- Fix monospaced font in UI elements.
- Fix display of Asian fonts in UI elements.
- More efficient socket handling, decreases CPU usage slightly.
- Suspend JavaScript, animations etc. when screen saver activates.
- Reduced tearing while panning.
- Fix proxy server mixup.
- Fix crash when reading proxy settings.
- Upgraded Opera Core, including many bugfixes
- Many bugfixes to the UI
Known issues:
- Somewhat higher memory usage, especially on JavaScript intensive sites.
- Due to timing issues with different geolocation information providers (WiFi, cell towers, GPS) first request may have poor precision.
- Fast scrolling not optimized for page rendering.
- Adobe Flash and other plugins are not supported.
- Screen tearing may be visible when panning, especially in portrait mode.
- The built-in on-screen keyboard is not supported. Use the physical keyboard or the on screen keyboard included with Opera Mobile.
The improved CPU handling alone is worth the upgrade. It does seem to run a bit smoother on my N900, but it wont replace the default microB browser just yet.
[via: MyNokiaBlog]
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