Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away.
I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'll be hard to replace the aggressive optimizations they have done to make this possible, though it's likely I can get most of the way by inlining everything and replacing script and image tags...
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Opera Mini is simply the best experience for compressed mobile web browsing on low-speed connections. I use it when traveling and when my data plan runs out for reading the news and web sites (I don't log into anything because I don't trust the provider, and they have to MITM HTTPS). I'll be sad if this goes away.
I wish there was a self-hosted solution for compressed mobile browsing that I could put on a server. It'll be hard to replace the aggressive optimizations they have done to make this possible, though it's likely I can get most of the way by inlining everything and replacing script and image tags...
After a few moments research, I found this https://github.com/barnacs/compy
It is not exactly the same. Mini runs JS on the server for you.
Should be a fun experience! I used opera mini extensively back before the iPhone got quite big (I think)