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Blackberry Bold crashes with Opera Mini 5

I have a Blackberry Bold 9000 and decided a few weeks ago to upgrade my opera version 4 to version 5. I have always used Opera instead of the default Blackberry browser because of the way it renders certain pages. I was attracted to the tabbing functionality of Mini 5 as - well thats how I work on my main computer. I always have multiple tabs open and have never had any issues with Opera. That was until the new version was installed. Since then it has been a nightmare.

After my first crash I started to use the My opera syncronisation services which has saved me inputting all my bookmarks more than once. So every crash I get now all I need to do is reinstall the product and allow the syncronisation to put all my bookmarks back.

So whats happening with Mini 5 and why am I writing here instead of surfing the forums to find answers?

Well I have done all the above and at time of writing there were no answers and the odd guess was not necessarily my problem.

My problems are

1. “White screen” – Like Microsofts Blue Screen of Death – Opera has found their own but it is the “white screen of death”. The only difference between the 2 is that Microsoft actually provides a dump on the screen so you can work out whats wrong if you take a picture of that screen or memorise the error message. With Opera Mini 5 it is 100% white or a dirty white or a shade of greay depending on how you want to describe it. Eitherway it provides no valuable information as to whats gone wrong. How have I been getting this? Well sometimes on some pages it just refuses to load and freezes the program. I can get out and back to normal Blackberry functions but I cant reboot Opera. Even pulling the battery out does not help. Nothing does. The only thing to do is reinstall. I have had this particular one about 3 times. Or once every second or 3rd day.
2. Menu Freezing. I then get a different error where the only menu item I can get into is the URL bar. I cannot get into book marks or move from one tab to another. So whilst I can still use the browser for this tab only I can only manually type addresses. Once again taking the battery out etc does not work. This can happen a couple of times a day.

The great thing is that I don't pay for data usage so I don't need to worry about downloadiong the 500k a couple of times day.

The reason I am putting up with it is because I am trying to get to the bottom of it so I can find a solution. I do like the tab functionality as well. But by the end of this week if I cant find an answer anywhere on the net then I will go back to Mini 4 until I read about a patch or something. Right now it would be nice to just get some acknowledgement.

UPDATE: The new version 5.1 is more stable - see here -> opera mini 5.1 Blackberry not freezing

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