In certain situations, it is very handy to have an extensions on the sidebar.

Opera also has sidebar extensions, which Chrome does not have. If you use extensions, then you are much better off running Opera than Chrome in terms of privacy and avoiding malware, especially if you stick to downloading extensions from the official addons site. This means there is a way lesser chance of malware extensions creeping in when downloading Opera extensions through the opera extensions catalog. One of the key things to realise here is that the extensions available over at are all moderated manually (along with some automated checks) whereas the extensions on the chrome store are not. Opera is really fast with chromium updates, so its really a non-issue if someone is concerned about Chrome getting updates of chromium earlier than Opera. They are one of the biggest contributers to the project outside Google (maybe the biggest outside google even).

This means more compatibility for Opera users, who previously got blocked out (in v12 and below) in many sites because many sites didn't care about Opera.Īlso, Opera contributes heavily to chromium along with Google. I'll try to give a response which I hope covers all the major points.įirstly, the fact that both Opera and Chrome are based on the same engine is a good thing.

Okay, I'm a long-time Opera fan and I see this question come up from time to time.

Opera browser has game engine go