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sindi keesan wrote:
> 
> I am hoping Steven can get the older Opera to work with BL2.  

OK, I have some progress to report.  I've tried running 
Opera 6.11 on a generic Slackware 7.1 installation.  I 
get exactly the same problem as in BL2.  So the problem 
does not lie specifically in BL2 -- it's a Slackware 
problem.  I'm surprised this fault is not more widely 
known.  Perhaps people had already moved to Slackware 8.0 
by the time Opera 6.11 came out?  I spend half an hour on 
google trying to find any reference to problems running 
Opera 6.11 on Slack71.  The only one I found related to 
GLX (which, I think, has something to do with 3D video).

Since 6.11 didn't work on Slack71, I decided to download
5.05.  It installed very smoothly and appears to work fine. 
No sign of the 6.11 problem.  I actually prefer 5.05.  It 
is smaller than 6.11 and has a cleaner layout.  Whether this
means it is faster, I don't know. Web pages seemed to be 
downloading more slowly than 6.11, but that could just be 
time-of-day.

I have only spent a few minutes on 5.05, so I need to do a
lot more testing.  But before I do, I want to make sure that
5.05 is going to do what people need.  It seems to do HTTPS
and javascript OK.  What things can 6.11 do that 5.05 can't?
Does anybody know of problems in 5.05?   

Cheers,
Steven