Opera vs Chromium

The built-In adblocker is faster than any extension. It's possible to add your own filter lists. However, the adblocker isn't enabled by default.

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You can pop-out any video and it will stay on top while you are surfing on other tabs.

Since Opera is built on Blink, the same engine Chromium is built on, it was possible for Opera developers to allow Chrome extensions to run in their browser.

Opera scores highly on HTML5 feature support.

Opera has a functionality called Turbo which increases browsers speed and reduces data consumption considerably by compressing the data that's found in a web page.

Unlike other browsers, you can install add-ons such as tabs, bookmarks, history, sessions, notes, and extension manager in the sidebar. So you have the flexibility to use it for your purpose.

Opera Sync allows you to synchronize your bookmarks, passwords, and more from any computer, phone, or tablet.

Opera is full of user controlled settings. Everything can be imported and exported even RSS feeds. It can be skinned in a variety of different themes or it can be extended through the use of a large number of plugins available.

Opera supports cross-browser extensions. Opera Addons site keeps quality up compared to Chrome Store. Full of useful extensions, Opera also supports extra APIs like Speed Dial API, Extension Sidebar API and Stash API meaning wider variety of extension possibilities than in Chrome.

Opera's Speed Dial (new tab page) has the ability to hold as many websites as you want, and you can customize it almost however you want. You can also organize the websites on the Speed Dial into folders.

Source code available on GitHub.

Scores top on Basemark.

You can save the Opera's setup files on a USB hard drive and run its portable version anywhere.

Opera got Reborn UI as the first implementation from Opera Neon concept browser. Snap -feature is next. Opera constantly improves its basic functionality - unlike Chrome.

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It doesn't consume much RAM, unlike Chrome.

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Opera loads videos faster, making it useful for slow internet connections.

Chrome and Chromium are available on almost every device nowadays

This is the browser Blink is made for and developed alongside.

Every tab and plugin runs in its own subprocess so they will never affect the whole browser ,however that consumes more memory than other browsers

Both Chromium and and its rendering engine Blink are licensed under the BSD-license which includes no copyleft unlike the GNU or Mozilla Licenses.

Chromium can access the Chrome Web Store and all the extensions hosted there can be installed and used on Chromium.

As Chrome is based on Chromium they overlap in supported features. Chromium syncs between devices, automatically updates, has great built-in developer tools, installs extensions without a restart, includes a combined text bar for entering URLs and searching and has excellent HTML5 compatibility just like Chrome.

It does not have any extensions preinstalled and focuses to be a web browser.

You can do almost anything with the code.

While the Chromium-based browser haev to adapt their code to the update before release, original Chromuim doesn't need it so it gets updated more constantly and frequently.

Since Google Chrome is the most used web browser, and that browser along with many others is based on Chromium, Chromium sets the standards for the internet and for security, and Firefox will always be years behind.

Chromium was first released as a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project by Google in september 2008. The idea was to encourage developers to review the underlying code and to contribute in making Chrome cross platform and port it to Mac and Linux as well.

Nowadays Chromium is a large project with a huge community that's standing behind it but still Google continues to take an extremely active role in Chromium development. This ensures the longevity and constant development and improvement of the browser.

Unlike Chrome it does come wihout any Google account requirement.