Happy birthday Opera Mini!

January 28, 2011 (approximate) · by Aleksander Aas

Five years ago, Opera Mini was first unleashed on the world. The first year Opera Mini served close to 2 million pages, now five years later Opera Mini served over 46.7 billion pages per month! Available on over 3000 devices, it's no wonder Opera Mini is the worlds largest mobile browser!

A lot has changed the last five years, just take a look at these old Opera Mini screens.

Join us in celebrating Opera Mini in the comments below. If you have the best Opera Mini story, you might win some Opera Mini swag!

Readers' comments 62

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Harish Lakshminarayana24. January 2011, 15:18
"Happy Birthday" mini!

Tamil24. January 2011, 15:20

Opera Mini, I never told you how I truly feel
You mean to me a great deal
Opera Mini, my dear sweetheart
let our roads never go apart

Meeting you was like winning the grand prize
It immediately clicked, to our surprise
Words cannot express
How you have captured my heart with success

Opera Mini, you mean so much to me
I never knew this could be
You are my sweetheart day by day
I will always carry you with me, in whichever what way

All of you is what I need
Together, we will succeed
I look forward to our next moment together
With you, life cannot become any better

Katherine kathiuska sanchez guerra24. January 2011, 15:20
Happy birthday to you happy birthday to you from panama!!
Superrrrrdurt!24. January 2011, 15:31
The only downside of Opera Mini on my Sony Ericsson W20i is that I can't make it the default browser (or is it a downside of the Zylo?).

I love Mini; is faster then default phone browsers (SE ones...), Opera Link, Speed Dial and almost that same browser feeling like on the desktop.

I even held my Dutch presentation (for school) about it and maybe convinced a few classmates to start using it too (a few of them already did!).
Johny Johnscan Ruiz Pintucan24. January 2011, 15:40
i Lav u Opera Mini
d4rkn1ght24. January 2011, 15:47
romli hanafi24. January 2011, 15:48
happy birthday..
Åitor gara®24. January 2011, 15:50
Happy birthday!! keep on mobilizing phones!
Rafael Luik24. January 2011, 15:50
Congratulations Opera Software for creating the browser that changed the way people browser the web on their mobiles. Before Opera Mini the mobile web was impossible due to the cost and the heaviness of the pages, but you innovated mobile browsing giving access to the real web to almost any device in the world!

Opera Mini is the most used mobile browser in the whole world, I think it's the real responsible for the popularization of the mobile web as it's going.
Ana María Cortés24. January 2011, 15:52
Happy birthday Opera Mini from Colombia!
I don't have any great story, but I like using Opera Mini on my iPhone because it uses less batery than any other browser.
Mihalis24. January 2011, 15:53
oooooooooooooowwww....... I remember the 1st opera on my Panasonic VS3... :'( the first years of mobile internet... I still have on that phone "the latest " opera 2 beta!!! hahahaha!!!

HAPPY B'DAY OPERAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
jingky amores24. January 2011, 15:54
hapi bday opera mini ,,
akhanisatyamg24. January 2011, 15:54
Congratulations Opera Software for creating the browser that changed the way people browser the web on their mobiles. Before Opera Mini the mobile web was impossible due to the cost and the heaviness of the pages, but you innovated mobile browsing giving access to the real web to almost any device in the world!

Opera Mini is the most used mobile browser in the whole world, I think it's the real responsible for the popularization of the mobile web as it's going.
Achim Hohlfeld.24. January 2011, 15:58
It's so tiny, so easy, so smart. Phone it!
Garancsi Gábor Zoltán24. January 2011, 16:04
I wish you happy B'day and tons of future success!
Zdenko Timulak24. January 2011, 16:07
happy birth day OM
Charles Schloss24. January 2011, 16:09

I was even able to load the full BBC news site in 18 seconds on 1 bar of edge network inside a brick building
Ahmed Ghanem24. January 2011, 16:15
Opera Mini FTW!
auroraptw24. January 2011, 16:19
Happy Birthday OM
André Pillay24. January 2011, 16:20
Very Happy Birthday OPERA MINI !!!
Opera mini is my Number 1 browser!
Keeps me in touch with the world.

Innovative and catchy !
Aleksey24. January 2011, 16:22
Happy birthday the best and successful mobile product - Opera Mini!
jugovi24. January 2011, 16:29
You are with me on my DS, you are with me on my Android. Soon you will be with me on my WII. May your song never wane, ho great Opera mini,you make my day immensely awesome.
Muhammad-Ubaid raza24. January 2011, 17:05
Happy birthday.... <3 Opera
Garath Emms24. January 2011, 17:05
Opera saved my life when on a Cottage holiday with Edge connection.

Love it!
Kelisha G Ferdinands24. January 2011, 17:26
"Happy 5th birthday the love of my l,ife Opera Mini" since August 2010"!! & many happy returns 4 2011..keep up th good work people.
Tranphong1924. January 2011, 17:43
happi birthday Opera Mini
ibrahim bah24. January 2011, 17:44
MY first time of using opera was in conakry the capital of guinea in the year 2008 first time using the web on a phone the way it accelerated loading the pages amazed me so much so that i prefered it to the computer .But what i was using it 4 did not permit access to the file forms on a phone (the site is the american dv lottery playing 4 citizenship ) my mobile is named sony ericsson w810i moreover i was using opera mini 4.2 and registered with it on the opera social network when i came across the beta in 2010 on get lap i wanted to switch my registration on it but phhh!!! no way
Emmanuel Femmy24. January 2011, 18:09
Happy Birthday opera mini
Jorjy24. January 2011, 18:12
I remember the day when i first installed opera mini on my first color screen phone (Samsung SGH X600) back in 2006. And amazed my whole classroom how fast a mobile browser can load webpages. How smooth a page scrolling can be in a mobile browser. 4 more years have passed But i can still remember, when my first public exam's result came out i didn't have any pc and exam board's site was overloaded. then i used opera mini, searched in net and got my result without any trouble! After that time i also helped so many friends of mine to get their results from online. Few days ago i visited my cousin's home for a vacation tour. Although he had a fast net connection but he uses chrome (worst browser i've ever used. Too much crash). Then i had no choice but my opera mini browser installed on my cellphone. If you ask me about any story. Then i've a lot of little story to tell. I just love opera mini and of course my cellphone that gives me the opportunity to use this best mobile application.
by the way, did i forget to give opera mini a birthday wish?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Opera Mini.
atikabubu24. January 2011, 18:12
Happy Bday OM
It it wasn't you, it would cost me an arm and a leg to use mobile internets
D1sasterp1ece24. January 2011, 18:16
Opera Mini? Mini? Really?
Look at how big Mini is now. Good work, Opera Software - as always.
Kumar Saurabh24. January 2011, 18:26
I still remember why did I buy my first phone which support Java (Nokia 3110c). Now, even after using so many phones, after spending thousands of hours with my phones, I can assure, Opera Mini is the application which I used Most, using mostly n the way it looks, will use most. Thanks Opera Mini..! I..no..we love you. Happy Birthday...
Sami Serola24. January 2011, 19:09
Happy birthday Opera Mini!
Adonis dikosmoy of Olympian fields24. January 2011, 19:22
Happy birthday opera mini.
actually i did get my first opera mini on my birthday some time ago and it was probably opera mini 2.x because i remember somehow that i could upgrade to 3.0 with quite a lot more features and i had a fresh nokia 6300 with the opera mini program installed on it. I had used internet on mac and a dos pc (yes, there was a textbrowser available then, though not opera) i was surprised that you could actually browse on the phone almost like i was used to do it on pc. Some things i had done there i could do with the newest version 4.2 =>
Adonis dikosmoy of Olympian fields24. January 2011, 19:43
=> and do you know that you can use opera mini on a windows pc. Rather tricky to make it work offcourse: opera mini is a java application and can be run on a simulator. So you can use opera mini to do some internet work even faster than with the browser. And safer too. It uses the same connection but a different destination than the desktop browser. It is great for going a bit unnoticed on the web. It has his limitations but still. you can run two opera's and one with another interface. lol.
Viktor Shald24. January 2011, 20:39
Pradox24. January 2011, 21:08
hapy birthday opera mini.. You all do the best.. Best wish form me..
Bonakala24. January 2011, 21:11
hips in da hoorey! Opera Mini the worlds largest mobile browser is turning 5 years. B part of BSAC community B a Friend to enjoy a Ride on the narwhal over a double rainbow & B Tjovo. Happy birthday Opera Mini.
Being part of Opera community it paid dividends for Bonakala & people she represents.
(BSAC community Friends)
Karen24. January 2011, 21:13
Jarek Maj24. January 2011, 21:15
Happy birthday Opera Mini!
I'm using opera mini since 2007.

Great Job!
BlueFalcon24. January 2011, 21:48
Jaahquubel24. January 2011, 22:14
Happy birthday and keep going!

Opera Mini - together since summer 2006 (check my comment: http://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Obcy-juz-wybrali-przegladarke,Aktualnosc,4285.html#komentarz_58491 ).

In autumn/fall 2008 I started the first semester as a doctorate student and as a maths teacher at my university of technology. I used Opera Mini (and Wolfram Alpha) to check (during the lessons) if our solution to some of the exercises was correct, few times.

Now I use Opera Mini for Symbian - it's so cool!
Egil Pettersen24. January 2011, 22:34
Happy birthday Opera Mini
kriss24. January 2011, 22:43
Marius Jaroszek24. January 2011, 23:07
Congratulations!

I have funny story, in which Opera Mini helped out me and my friends.
Last academic year, in December 2009, just in the Christmas, me and my friends (Students of IT in Lublin, Poland) have arrived in Bergen.
Without proper internet we went to students accommodation, housing estate in Fantoft. And then we realised, that our host (Høgskolen i Bergen) is closed until new year. So we couldn't get proper vpn accounts to log into the net... so we were exploring the city discussing, playing board games, and during one of them when my lovely friend realised, that if we buy a packet of net storage, we can use internet on smartphones, we bought it, opened Opera Mobile and contacted proper person, a buddy, on the Facebook, and he gave us passwords and permission to log into the intranet and internet. It was beautiful moment... cheers;D
rsister8825. January 2011, 00:45
Happy birthday Opera Mini!
maria230925. January 2011, 01:53
happy b'day Opera Mini
Rachel25. January 2011, 02:03
Congratulations on your fifth year. Its been a great experience using opera mini, i can use it anywhere, post blogs right away whenever ideas came to mind, read news and just browse. My daily subway trip became less boring.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Opera Mini
Risanto25. January 2011, 02:37
Happy Birthday OPERA MINI ..
shinpei suzuki25. January 2011, 04:07
Happy-happy Birthday mini