#Chrome in opera developer download#

The browser sports a long-anticipated new design that works a lot better. Opera Turbo is still there, but it’s now called the off-road mode. There are a couple of new features, a Discover tab very reminiscent of Google News with a Pinterest UI, a Stash tab that works like Safari’s “Reading List”. Yet, this new release feels half-baked - the new design works well, the company finally got rid of obsolete features, but many essential features are still missing. There is an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to Opera’s features.

For example, the speed dial first appeared in 2007 before popping up in other browsers. Opera often brags about its innovative features that the company introduced years before Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Apple. Opera is back, but why would I use it over Chrome? While this strategic move was needed to keep up with the competition, the company has to give its users incentives to actually use the new version. Users subscribe to a release channel (Opera, Opera Next or Opera Developer) and can now expect a release every few weeks. Gone are the days of rendering issues on websites that weren’t optimized for Opera’s engine.Įven the release cycle is now very similar to Chrome’s release cycle. Under the hood, you will find Blink - Google’s rendering engine based on WebKit - as well as V8, the JavaScript engine in Chrome. The company hopes to compete on features to attract new users - but it’s not there yet. Now based on the Chromium project, Opera 15 shares a lot of similarities with Google Chrome.

#Chrome in opera developer download#

After a month of testing, Opera’s radically new browser exits beta stage and is now available to download on.