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roberts:
What happened to Opera 10.5x for Linux?
Now I see a 10.60 alpha for Linux. Am using it now.

With the 10.5x and 10.60 no need for Gtk or Qt only fontconfig dependency.
But then along comes flash10 and all of its dependencies.

Still hoping for a smaller, faster Opera for Linux.

maro:
I've been using the various alpha and beta releases of Opera 10.5x (and now 10.6x) after I posted these remarks. Initially only to see whether the bugs I had lodged were cleared.

It used to crash a fair bit but since the last 2-3 weeks it has become the only browser I ever use with TC (obviously typing this message using "opera-10.60-6347.i386.linux"). So far so good, but the flash dependencies are such a drag that I only load them occasionally. That would be a dream to have a minimal dependency flash plug-in. Surely not from Adobe, the "masters of bloat".

curaga:
They couldn't finish 10.5x for *nix before 10.6 for the main platforms (Win, Mac) came up.

Thus there's not going to be 10.5 for unix at all, they target the next stable after 10.10 for 10.60.

curaga:
Any of the replacements aren't that light on deps either; gnash is near identical to Adobe's, and the new lightspark one needs llvm and opengl.

curaga:
So, 10.60 final is out. Though, based on my and other's experiences it still isn't as stable or usable as 9.64 or 10.10. Thus I recommend not to overwrite the opera10 extension with it, if it gets packaged.

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