Most Opera fans probably already installed their favourite browser on the AA1, but with a market share of only about 2% many AA1 users will probably not even know about it. Making them potential Opera users.

Opera is fast and usually spearheading the browser community when it comes to new features and adoption of new web standards. It was the first to use multiple windows in a single browser, which later turned into tabbed browsing. You can see an overview of all features here.

Since the market share is so low there are still web sites that don't work properly with Opera, or will look different compared to Firefox or WebKit (Chrome, Safari) based browsers. Opera uses the Qt framework, which also makes it look a little out of place on the AA1. I recommend to install the Tango skin to give it a more familiar look.

If you want to give it a try download the latest multi-language version 9.63 from an official mirror. You can also skip the terminal and just install it via this link instead.

wget "http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=31881&location=270&nothanks=yes&sub=marine"
sudo rpm -i opera-9.63.gcc4-shared-qt3.i386.rpm

Unfortunately Opera only supplies a low resolution icon by default, but you can download a high resolution version and put it on the desktop with the commands below.

sudo wget -O /usr/share/pixmaps/opera.png http://promote.opera.com/logos/Opera1_t.png

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/linpus-web.desktop /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
sudo sed -e'/Exec/cExec=opera' -e'/Icon/cIcon=opera' -i /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
dca add 10 "file='/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop'"

If it wasn't for the icon the installation probably couldn't be more simple.