Nintendo's giving the Wii's Opera Browser an update before it starts charging you for it.

Following feedback about the browser, which is still in its beta version, Nintendo plans to streamline it. Most important, as far as SPOnG's concerned, is the decision to have buttons that will instantly enter common strings of characters such as 'www' and '.com'. The decision will, we hope and pray, shorten the time spent watching your cursor judder across the screen frustratingly as you try to type.

The other updates, according to Nintendo, will be as follows, “Improved zooming and scrolling, an improved zoomed font, shortened start-up times, quicker access to 'favourites,” and “...an ability to hide the toolbar.”

The updated browser will be free until the end of June, when it will begin costing 500 Wii points on the Wii Shop Channel and sell for 500 Wii points (£3.50).