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I read up on xft and fontconfig and added /etc/fonts/local.conf directing 
fontconfig to /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts (using XML and fontconfig), which 
eliminated the two error messages at startup, but created a new problem 
(undefined symbol) which prevented Opera from loading, so I removed 
local.conf and will use it with invisible menu. I might need Slackware 12 
fontconfig to eliminate the problem but then I would need a later glibc 
and a 2.6 kernel to match.


Clicking on the third menu item, first line, fifth line (status bar?), 
gives you a green Turbo on rectangle at bottom left and the 100% at bottom 
right that was in Opera 9 but not in 10.  And No Images icon which you can 
toggle from No Images to Show Images to Cached Images to Show Images but 
not back to No Images (which I fixed from the menu instead - item three 
[][][][] VIEW, line three [][][][][][] IMAGES, line three - hint from the 
icons).


A printout of Opera 9 menu would help.  [][][][] is FILE or VIEW.
[][][][][] TOOLS.  I already had the 100% in Opera 9.  10 was supposedly 
using the same preferences but did not display the same.

You can copy the Windows skin from 9 to 10 to eliminate the 'new look'. 
Other new features include the ability to resize search area (you can use 
F2 in Opera 9 instead) and tabs, decorate speed dial, use webmail as 
mailer, and bloat your emails with not only HTML but RTF, CSS, links, 
inline images.  Spellchecking. Bittorrent.

They claim 40% more speed with Presto engine at Gmail. Turbo does not do 
anything noticeable at sites I use.  gmail is 17 sec first time with turbo 
on, then 3 sec to reload with or without turbo on, without images. 
links2 non-graphical takes 9 seconds.  (And loads itself instantly to 
start with).

The working XML is the most attractive feature to me.  I would use Opera 
10 where links, Opera9 and Seamonkey fail, because it is faster than 
Firefox 2 (which also does XML).

Sindi Keesan