Opera Left Out One of its Best Shortcut Keys “# +3” Action of "Sroll to Top/Bottom" in All Upgraded Versions of Opera Mini
Opera mini, which is one of the best mobile
browsers that has rocked the mobile browsing world in the past and even till
this very moment.
Back then,
Opera mini used to be the browser of preferred choice for most folks in their
Nokia Symbian and Java phones.
One of the
most important features of the Opera mini browser that made it the surfers’
choice then was its ability to render webpages in a shrink miniaturize manner,
thereby making browsing as fast as possible.
When men
started using Opera mini then, we joined the team of Opera mini user teams at
the time of Opera mini version 4.0 with our old Nokia Symbian/Java
phones and we all enjoyed every bit of browsing with Opera mini.
Then, there
was almost next to nothing as compared with the speed that Opera mini browser
offers, and the likes of the UC browsers were almost nowhere to be found at
that period.
As time goes
on, later versions of Opera mini began to emerge, like Opera mini 4.0, 4.1,
4.2, 4.5, 5.0 etc.
Since we
know perfectly how to use the Opera mini browsers with its features and all the
shortcut keys on the browser for even faster ways of browsing and moving round
the browser, there was this very handy short-cut keys “# + 3” that takes one
immediately either to the top or bottom of large/long mobile webpages.
As without
the shortcut keys “# + 3” one has to
scroll and scroll over and over again in order to get to the top or bottom of
large/long mobile webpages.
It even gets
more cumbersome when such a webpage has plenty comments, and now getting down
to the bottom of the page, maybe to drop your on comment without the availability
of the “# + 3” has not being
anything next to easy.
Now the sad
thing is that apart from those earlier Opera Mini versions of 4.0, 4.22, the
upgraded versions of Opera mini, like the Opera mini 6.0 through the most
current 8.0 versions, you will no longer find that action (scrolling to top or bottom of webpages) that the shortcut
keys “# + 3” executes in those
previous versions.
Rather,
Opera has decided to replace the shortcut key “# + 3” with In-Search action
in the newer version Opera mini, and which was also present in the older
versions when you press the shortcut key “#
+ *”.
And now
since they have wiped out the Scroll to
top/bottom action, in their newer Opera mini browser versions, when you
press the former shortcut keys “# + 3”,
it brings out the In-search entry
line, and when you then dial the “# + *”
shortcut keys, no action is taken.
Though this
step taken by Opera has kept many, including me wondering; because we all
thought that one of the essences of upgrading or releasing newer versions of
any app has been to further enhance the features of previous versions and to
maintain and improve them on the newer versions.
But here,
the reverse seems to be the case, as Opera unknowingly to them decided to kill
the goose that lays the golden egg by excluding the Scroll to top/bottom of a page shortcut feature in the newer
versions of Opera mini.
Finally, we
are using this opportunity to call on the Opera developer to look back and see
the harm they have caused Opera mini users by taking away such a unique feature from new versions of
Opera mini, and rather they should plan to include it back in the shortcut
menus in their future versions of Opera mini.
Opera Left Out One of its Best Shortcut Keys “# +3” Action of "Sroll to Top/Bottom" in All Upgraded Versions of Opera Mini
Reviewed by Edwin Akwudolu
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