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Run Opera Mini 5 On Your Desktop

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Opera Mini is the most popular browser for mobile phones and smartphones and has been making navigation on phones much more easier with tabbed browsing and touchscreen navigation. Now what if you want to test out Opera Mini, but can’t install it on your phone because it is not supported?

Well, thanks to a Mobile emulator, you can now run and test the Opera Mini browser on your desktop including Windows, Linux and Mac because it is based on Java and will run on any system which supports Java. Here are the instructions on how you can run Opera Mini on your PC, courtesy My Opera and Kabatology.

Step 1: Download and extract the Micro Emulator to your PC.

Step 2: Download the Opera Mini (.jar and .jad) files to your PC from http://www.operamini.com.

Mobile Micro Emulator

Step 3: Navigate to the folder where you extracted the Micro Emulator and double-click on microemulator.jar. A new application should open up as seen in the screenshot above.

Select Resizable Devices

Step 4: Now go to "Options -> Select Devices" and select Resizable devices from the available options and click on the "Set as default" button, finally click on the Ok button.

Step 5: Now click on the "Resize" button and set your preferred size.

Opera Mini 5 on Desktop

Step 6: Now click on "File -> Open MIDlet File" and select the Opera Mini .jad file you downloaded earlier, once the file is loaded just click Start and you can start experiencing Opera mini on your desktop.

You can also use the emulator to run other J2ME apps on your desktop PC. Enjoy!!

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  1. sudharsan @ technosk on January 24th, 2010 at 2:50 am #

    Hey cool find dear…

    • Aritra Sen on December 29th, 2010 at 6:23 am #

      Unfortunately, it does not open on my PC. It says unable to connect to internet please check your settings!!!

  2. JoAnne Marshall on June 15th, 2010 at 8:45 pm #

    I really like it, but can't watch a youtube. When I click on

    watch now button, I get a long dialog telling me that it

    would be better if the device were used "ok?' and then

    nothing happens.

  3. Buzzknow on November 25th, 2010 at 5:35 pm #

    Cool, now i can run opera mini at my laptop ;)

    thanks

  4. Habibieboy on January 11th, 2011 at 9:20 am #

    hi.. i tried it but why do i can’t use opera mini’s download feature?

  5. san on February 27th, 2011 at 11:42 am #

    hi..this is an excellent emulator,though u cannot download or view videos.
    My main question was that it does no run ebuddy or snaptu .it displays several errors

    at java.util.jar.Attributes.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.jar.Manifest.read(Unknown Source)
    at org.microemu.app.Common.loadJadProperties(Common.java:971)
    at org.microemu.app.Common.openMIDletUrl(Common.java:372)
    at org.microemu.app.Common.openMIDletUrl(Common.java:248)
    at org.microemu.app.Common.openMIDletUrlSafe(Common.java:239)
    at org.microemu.app.Main$2.actionPerformed(Main.java:232)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

    any idea to run these apps?

  6. timer on April 22nd, 2011 at 1:51 am #

    it works bad, real one is much different

  7. Damith on May 19th, 2011 at 4:41 pm #

    That has been something I’ve searched for ages!
    Thank you very much!
    Good luck!

  8. ANTHONY BABALOLA on July 17th, 2011 at 7:48 pm #

    i hope its faster for browsing that i choose it

  9. Ibrahim on September 9th, 2011 at 7:12 pm #

    micro emulator is a jar file its not working on my computer

  10. predal on November 27th, 2011 at 7:02 pm #

    Go here and automatically download & install the latest version (at the moment 6.5.).

    http://mozliwosci.com/operamini/

    It works as the one on my Android.

  11. khalid on December 7th, 2011 at 1:03 am #

    It’s work. you’re genius