What do you do when your internet speed is at its worst? You want to check your mails, check your adsense income or complete some important research work and you are not able to do any of them? This will be a day-to-day affair if you are using dial-up connection or a slow broadband connection. This post is especially intended for those power users of internet who don’t want to miss their web experience even when connections speed sucks. Using this trick, you can carry out your web surfing easily and swiftly as if you were on a proper broadband line. We will see about a way/alternative to surf internet when your internet speed is frequently irregular and slow at times.
Trick to Browse web faster when Internet connection Sucks
Opera Mini is a mobile browser based on java platform used on most cellphones to surf internet on mobile in a pc-friendly navigation style. Opera Mini 5 (the latest version) is faster, easier and features pc-friendly internet/web-surfing. Browsing through opera mini is faster because opera mini uses its own proxy server to fetch websites for you. Opera Mini squeeze webpages and present to you your desired content at a reasonable speed.
Steps to surf on PC using mobile browser opera mini to experience speed even when actual internet speed is low:
1. First, we need to make sure that Java runtime is installed on our PC, because to run mobile java applications, we need an emulator and to run emulator, java runtime class is required.
Download the latest Java runtime environment for windows pc.
After downloading, install it and then proceed to next step.
2. Now we need an emulator to emulate mobile java application on pc. The emulator should be able to use network and should support full-screen view of mobile application. Here we choose MicroEmulator.
After downloading, open microemulator.jar
3. Now we need to fit/resize microemulator to our PC screen so that we can surf web on PC in full screen mode. For this we need to add a device to microemulator.
Download devices.zip containing resizable.jar and opera mini 5.jad for microemulator
Extract the downloaded folder.
4. Now click on options button in Microemulator. Check Midlet Network Access. Then click on Select Device, then click on ADD button. Locate the downloaded resizable.jar and click open
5. Now select resizable.jar – Click on set as default – hit OK.
6. Now click on File menu, locate opera-mini.jad in the downloaded folder above. Click on Start. Opera Mini will configure itself. Now just open your desired website and surf the web swiftly with a few limitation.
Click on thumbnail above to see how techpp.com looks in full screen on opera mini browser on pc.
Using the method, mentioned above, you can browse the web fastly and swiftly while some websites doesn’t render fully but this method is particularly useful for dial-up users to get their web-task done in a minute.
Comments and Questions are welcome!!
Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
I cannot find the opera-mini.jad file…
It’s in the devices folder. Here’s the whole filename: opera-mini-5.0.16823-advanced-en.jad
i can’t start by this way.
Thank you, this really great
u dont have to go through all this trouble. just download the PC version of Opera browser. it has a built in feature called “Opera Turbo”. Enable it and it does the exact same thing that opera mini does. it compresses the data using the same servers used for opera mini!
thanks so much..it works”,
Can’t able to find resizable.zar wr did i get sir….
the Philippines is not supported by this free calls so, i don’t want to try it just to be sure that it’s goin to be failed
luv u bro u r solved my slow down problem tnx again