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Using my speedy 768bps broadband (which lets me listen to BBC3 lower 
bandwidth while using Opera), I downloaded and unpacked it on /, and there 
appear to be NO missing dependencies, unlike version 10.1.  I read that 
version 10.5 switched to its own GUI instead of QT, but when I try to run 
it I get a list of complaints about invalid locale set and failed to 
install fonts.

It appears to require GLIBC 2.3.2 (Slackware 11 2.3.6 should work with 
kernel 2.4).   Strings opera | grep GLIBC lists 2.3.2 and older.

I have stripped out whatever locale stuff came with various packages. 
Could someone else please try the latest Opera in BL2 with glibc 2.3.2 or 
later?

Get the bz2 and tar -yxvf opera-10.6* in / then run it from
/opera-10*/lib/opera/opera

There is also the fonts problem - Steven, can you figure this out? Opera 9 
works though the font set is limited.  Opera 10.1 was unusable in BL2 even 
with libqt and other dependencies due to some font problem that caused 
much of the text to appear as little squares.  Despite trying to configure 
things as instructed by the relevant program (see BL archives).

Opera should be less of a challenge than a GTK2 browser, though it 
probably won't use less memory.  (In Puppy Linux it uses somewhat less 
than Firefox 3 but more than Seamonkey 1.18 GTK2).  There are adblockers 
for it and flashblockers (not that we have a recent flash working).

I will investigate Opera 9 adblocking.  I found a filter (list of 
blockable sites) by Fanboy.

Sindi Keesan