Setting Opera Mobile 10 as the Default Mobile Browser

Opera Mobile 10 is fast becoming our favorite mobile browser. For desktop users, Opera Mobile 10 offers similar experience where you can assign favorites to open on click, allowing multiple tabs, and others. The speed is significantly faster and the UI has also improved since the last update. The question now is, how can I set it as the default mobile browser?

For some of you, the option to set it as a default is prompted when you load the mobile browser. For others, you might have to dig into the registry setting and make some adjustment to the values.

Objective

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Set Opera Mobile 10 as the default mobile browser

Applicable Device(s)

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Samsung Pocket PCs and Smartphones

What you need

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Registry editor (i.e. PHM Editor)

Registry Address

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• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\

Value Name(s)

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• 1

Value Data

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This is where you will make the change to the location of Opera Mobile 10’s execution file. We installed it in My Storage, you might have installed it elsewhere. Whatever the case may be, just find and enter the location of the Opera10-armv4i.exe file.

• Change from \My Storage\Program Files\Opera Mobile\OperaL.exe to
• \My Storage\Program Files\Opera Mobile 10\Opera10-armv4i.exe

Screenshot: Registry Edits

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Here are a couple of screenshots for the registry edits’ locations.

You will need to perform a soft-reset for the setting to be applied.