Get the Opera Mobile emulator on your Mac or PC

April 22, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

A bit more than a month after the release of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones, we are happy to announce a special developer version of Opera Mobile 10 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Testing mobile browsers usually requires Web developers to buy one or more devices on which they then can investigate how their Web sites perform. The Opera Mobile emulator is designed to make the whole testing effort a bit easier: You install a small, native application on the platform of your choice, and load Web pages from the comfort of your desktop.

You can read more about this release in the press release or on Opera Labs.

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Charles SchlossThursday, April 22, 2010 1:33:45 PM
http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Happy.gif -
Uncle MickThursday, April 22, 2010 1:42:00 PM
Are those links at the end of the post correct?
ZotlanThursday, April 22, 2010 1:51:05 PM
Correct links are here.

EDIT: Nice tool BtW, i think i have some work to do.
Uncle MickThursday, April 22, 2010 1:57:44 PM
Thanks
TamilThursday, April 22, 2010 2:22:32 PM
Sami SerolaThursday, April 22, 2010 3:25:41 PM
WOW http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cool2.gif -
el IsraThursday, April 22, 2010 4:03:02 PM
WOOOOOOOOW!!!! This is really nice
Thanks, Opera
Raphael JavauxThursday, April 22, 2010 4:15:56 PM
Does is this really an emulator ?
It most looks like a native application.

Great
Rafael LuikThursday, April 22, 2010 4:36:17 PM
techlawsamThursday, April 22, 2010 4:48:31 PM
YESS!! finally some awesome debug, testing input..Opera you guys rock!
ytgThursday, April 22, 2010 5:08:49 PM
.deb? .rpm?
mlouisThursday, April 22, 2010 6:03:53 PM
Originally posted by ytg:

.deb? .rpm?

links.....http://labs.opera.com/news/2010/04/22/

This is so awesome, I downloaded the tarball for linux and it works like a charm, thanks !
d4rkn1ghtThursday, April 22, 2010 6:20:32 PM
selurusThursday, April 22, 2010 7:09:04 PM
Would this also work on a Nokia N900?
ZotlanThursday, April 22, 2010 8:08:46 PM
Originally posted by selurus:

Would this also work on a Nokia N900?

This is meant for Windows/Linux/Mac users, so they can see what their sites would look like on Opera mobile.
techlawsamThursday, April 22, 2010 9:09:04 PM
oh man this is so addicting! plus I didnt know how powerful opera mobile really was! All pages are truly being rendered fully no hiccups!
techlawsamThursday, April 22, 2010 10:37:09 PM
p.s thanks for listening!!
MYoperaNIGHTFriday, April 23, 2010 2:09:17 AM
Opera mini application not work well with device. You must make sure opera mini application and your member device. Thanks

PEACE FOR YOU
selurusFriday, April 23, 2010 3:17:39 AM
Originally posted by selurus:

Would this also work on a Nokia N900?

This is meant for Windows/Linux/Mac users, so they can see what their sites would look like on Opera mobile.

But the Nokia N900 is a Maemo device(linux based) and is also able to run the open source version of Chrome. Wouldn't it also be able to run Opera Mobile that is built for linux?
I guess I should ask this in the Maemo forum.
leighmanFriday, April 23, 2010 9:40:47 AM
Awesome =D
Onyekachi kkennwatchFriday, April 23, 2010 10:44:08 AM
Wow!! That's gre8
Cutting SpoonFriday, April 23, 2010 8:54:14 PM
Nyurr har har har. First Opera Desktop on my desktop, then Opera Mini (via MicroEmulator) on my desktop, and now Opera Mobile + Opera Widget Manager on my desktop?! Thanks!
AbandonShip?Saturday, April 24, 2010 12:56:28 PM
AdrianPMSaturday, April 24, 2010 3:40:26 PM
Excellent news. I did't have the chance to test Opera Mobile before, now I give it a test drive and then recommend it to my friends.

Thank you for this, Opera devs.
Cutting SpoonSunday, April 25, 2010 1:47:51 AM
Liking it so far. Does the option to enable plugins actually DO anything? I've got lots more exploring to do...
Harlekin MondSunday, April 25, 2010 3:13:13 PM
Thank you
ansafMonday, April 26, 2010 10:01:48 AM
Both the symbian version and the desktop emulator version of opera mobile lack flash support which prevents flash animation and video streaming frm web in like youtube. Hope the next version of opera mobile will support flash and other plugins like the desktop opera. Apart from that(only that....) its awsome.......
Cutting SpoonMonday, April 26, 2010 4:06:28 PM
Yes, please if anyone could explain what the "plugins" radio button is for?
Rafael LuikMonday, April 26, 2010 5:20:30 PM
Originally posted by hellspork:

Yes, please if anyone could explain what the "plugins" radio button is for?

Opera Mobile supports plugins.
Cutting SpoonMonday, April 26, 2010 11:28:12 PM
*face->keyboard*

So I'm guessing it doesn't do anything in a desktop OS?
FreemanFriday, April 30, 2010 6:57:16 AM
who woulda thought
deniz chavezThursday, November 18, 2010 3:52:56 PM
i want to try it for my n70.i hope it works:s
DanuwinataWednesday, November 9, 2011 12:10:46 PM
I try to install opera mobile emulator 11.5 and install to my pc, but there was a message : create process failed ; code 14001.

Can anybody please give advice how to solve this problem ?

Thank you in advance
Cutting SpoonSaturday, November 12, 2011 4:34:09 AM
First, what OS do you have? What CPU?

How old is the computer?
DanuwinataSunday, November 13, 2011 11:11:55 AM
I used windows xp service pack 3.

Before I reinstall my windows xp it work, but after I reinstall it didn't work.

And finally I found the problem in windows xp service pack 3, I need to install : Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86).

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=5582

And now it's working.

Thank you
Cutting SpoonMonday, November 14, 2011 12:10:28 AM
AH. That makes sense, this type of missing dependency pops up all the time. It is difficult sometimes to isolate every dependency and plan contingencies for all of them.