Linux version installation problem

[jart]

The Autopackage version only contains the GUI, not the daemon. The GUI doesn't require the daemon, so it should fit your needs. The menu entry should be installed somewhere under Internet (Internet -> Other -> BFilter Web Proxy in my case). It's it's not installed - that's probably a bug in Autopackage. You may want to try a newer version of it (sorry, I don't remember how to upgrade it).
As for the tray icon appearing for a moment and then disappearing, I don't know. Autopackage installer should not launch programs it installs.

As for page loading speed, I don't think anyone has done any measurements, but it should have improved since version 1.1, which introduced caching of external scripts.