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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Sindi wrote:

> Managed to download Opera 9.64 and then 9.63.  Install.sh for each put 
> the Opera binary in the wrong place for both versions.  Didn't get a 
> good install for either.


You don't need to install.  If you already did, you can delete any 
directories with opera in their name (/usr/share/opera, etc.).
rm -r opera*

Unpack opera to / (tar -zxvf opera*.tar.gz) To run opera, cd /opera* (fill 
in the correct version name), then type opera, which is a wrapper script 
that tells opera where to find things (including java and adobe pdf 
reader, which we don't have) and runs the actual binary 
/opera*/usr/lib/opera*/9*, about 15MB.

less /opera*/opera lets you read the script.

Opera might boot faster with a shorter wrapper script - anyone want to try 
fixing it?

Installation would copy /opera*/usr to /usr.  The wrapper script probably 
gets put some place on the path.  I don't have it installed.

This way you can try several versions from their own directories.
While they are running, type 'top' in another terminal to compare memory 
usage.  I found 8.54 used least, then 9.2*, then 9.5 and 9.6.

Have you also tried lynx2 in graphical mode?  It is faster, but does not 
handle a lot of javascript.  Steven's version for X (28) is the last 
javascript version before they dropped support for it.