Opera Mini 8.1 for Windows Phone

Hello, all!

I would like to inform you that today we released a new update to Opera Mini on Windows Phone. The exact version number is 8.1.0.118 and here's the new stuff you can find in it:

• Private mode
• Background theme switching
• An option to prevent loading images
• A live tile on your phone's Start screen that shows your data savings
• Support for new languages: German, Italian, French and Polish

Those are the high-level changes. Here's a raw changelog of the issues we've fixed from our bug tracking system:

• [WP-1093] - Minimizing of bottom bar when scrolling isn't correct
• [WP-1096] - MS.Internal.XcpImports.CheckHResult
• [WP-1097] - AppBar stays minimized when navigating back to Speed Dial
• [WP-1099] - Find in page ugly close animation if the addressbar got minimized in the meantime.
• [WP-1106] - pin to start: empty speed dial page is displayed when tab manager is active
• [WP-1112] - pin to start: ugly blink when opening page from live tile
• [WP-1116] - Change settings switch color to green.
• [WP-1119] - Add option to turn off images
• [WP-1120] - Incorrect back button behaviour when returning from background on settings
• [WP-1130] - Headers check issues
• [WP-1131] - System.StubHelpers.UriMarshaler.CreateNativeUriInstanceHelper
• [WP-1138] - Graphical issues with starting screen
• [WP-1151] - Address bar opening animation is really choppy
• [WP-1156] - Russian wikipedia pages have no thumbnails on Speed Dial.
• [WP-1159] - PageLoadsBookmarks metric doesn't work
• [WP-1171] - Download notification is misplaced
• [WP-1178] - "Add to" menu entries don't work is you are too slow.
• [WP-1179] - Address is not saved when editing bookmark
• [WP-1182] - Introduction page and EULA is not fully translated
• [WP-1184] - Text size option is not transalted
• [WP-1188] - Incorrect speed dial thumbnail after closing last tab
• [WP-1202] - 'Save' button on image page does not work
• [WP-1204] - Pin to start blank page on sesion restore
• [WP-1205] - Back button doesn't close custom SimpleAppBar
• [WP-1206] - Wrong state of appbar after navigating to new background tab in minimized state.
• [WP-1207] - Context menu in bookmark folder selector doesn't work.
• [WP-1209] - Download counter is not visible
• [WP-1213] - (...) in bottom bar should be aligned to right not centered
• [WP-1219] - Url bar spacing error
• [WP-1220] - Bottom bar actions should be available in whole line
• [WP-1232] - Fip crashes browser
• [WP-1233] - Reksio's suggestion provider doesn't report 400 error codes back to caller.
• [WP-1234] - Password field double stars
• [WP-1237] - Tab placeholder should be shown in tab preview for tabs that haven't been loaded.
• [WP-1240] - WrtSurfaceContentProvider unit tests are failing.
• [WP-1243] - Url bar not reseting after back key
• [WP-1250] - Url in address bar is jumping when sliding back and foward
• [WP-1264] - Long tap does not affect on options in settings
• [WP-1281] - Crash in RemoveBackButtonHandler on BookmarksPage
• [WP-1282] - Crash in AddressBar.AddressBar_Loaded
• [WP-1286] - Crash in AddressBar.TextChanged
• [WP-1287] - White rectangle appears on multiple pages
• [WP-1288] - Live tile has black text on white theme
• [WP-1289] - Speed dials not loading
• [WP-1290] - Crash in BookmarksCollection
• [WP-1291] - Misplaced speedials
• [WP-1293] - Crash on youtube.
• [WP-1294] - Browser doesnt remeber user input
• [WP-1296] - Pin to start, black screen and ugly blinking
• [WP-1302] - Addres bar disappears after typing long url
• [WP-1311] - Infinite rendering loop due to an error in tile fading
• [WP-1322] - Youtube screen back button does not work after suspend.
• [WP-1323] - Speed Dial unreadable on sunset background.
• [WP-1344] - Disable autocomplete.
• [WP-1346] - String for private tabs are cut off in Spanish (and wrong size)
• [WP-1349] - The green setting switches has the wrong shade of green
• [WP-1350] - Crash when creating new private tab.
• [WP-1354] - New translations are not displayed
• [WP-1368] - Opening tabs in foreground spoils browser
• [WP-1335] - Improve backgrounds for lower memory usage and quicker operation
• [WP-1197] - Tombstoning support
• [WP-1201] - Create background switcher
• [WP-1222] - Implement introduction page.
• [WP-1253] - Create translation for 8.1.0.x update 1
• [WP-1268] - Don't hide bars if site is a bit higher than viewport
• [WP-1275] - Provide consistent mode of access/update for databases

The update is now live. You can get it from Windows Phone Apps+Games Store.

As always, we need your feedback! Try out the update and let us know what you think. Leave your comments here or report issues via the option in Opera Mini's settings.