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How to disable the narrow text columns in Opera Mini for iPhone, iPod and iPad

April 13, 2010 · by Haavard

Opera Mini wraps text columns to fit the screen when zoomed in by default. This could potentially cause problems on some sites, and it might make sense to disable this on devices with a larger screen, such as the iPhone.

To do so, open a new type and enter "opera:config" or just "config:" as the address, and set the "Fit text to screen" dropdown to "No", then scroll to the bottom and hit the "Save" button.

More information and screenshots at Choose Opera.

Readers' comments 5

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  • Charles SchlossTuesday, April 13, 2010 12:53:27 PM

    :cool:
  • WildEnteTuesday, April 13, 2010 6:56:01 PM

    sadly this makes opera:config almost unusable on the ipod touch (either zooms in or out too much). Ah well, don't need opera:config often anyways
  • J. KingTuesday, April 13, 2010 7:22:13 PM

    Why aren't they options exposed in the standard configuration pane? Half of them are perfectly useful without being particularly esoteric.
  • Mağruf ÇolakoğluTuesday, April 13, 2010 7:52:58 PM

    :up:
  • Cutting SpoonThursday, April 15, 2010 1:41:10 AM

    Nice! I never realized there was a config URL for Mini!

About this article

Published inA Journal from Behind the Trenches
DateApril 13, 2010
AuthorHaavard
Tagsopera mini, iphone, text wrapping, ipod, ipad
OriginalInternet Archive