Opera Mini to offer fast access to downloads and more

With more than 100 million installs and 3 million user reviews, Opera Mini remains a popular mobile browser for the Android platform. Now, it is also ready to gain a set of new features, in addition to the ones added by the latest update.

According to the official blog of the Opera Mobile team, "This year Opera Mini isn’t just about helping you access more of the web, but also enabling you to interact with more content while you browse." The most important features to arrive are these:

• automatic scan for downloadable videos and music
• new Facebook notification bar
• saved pages compression
• video boost support in Extreme mode
• download manager UI improvements
• various bug fixes and tweaks

The latest update for Opera Mini arrived on March 25, including social login for Sync with Opera, Facebook performance improvements, a new one-hand friendly video player, and more. There are also other new features in the pipeline, but Opera's big plans for the future will remain secret for the time being.