Opera (web browser) layout engine of its competitor Google Chrome. Features of the Opera web browser include private browsing, tabbed browsing, download manager, mouse gestures and browser extensions. Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, it branched out into a separate company named Opera Software. Opera was first released publicly in 1996 with version 2.10, which only ran on Microsoft Windows. In an attempt to capitalize on the emerging market for Internet-connected handheld devices, a project to port Opera to mobile device platforms was started in 1998. Opera 4.0, released in 2000, included
Features of the Opera web browser would otherwise have issues to run on Opera and to cloak the UA string by default for some website domains. Features of the Opera web browser This article details features of the Opera web browser. This section describes the features currently available in Opera. In Opera 49, developers added a snapshot tool with editing features. Opera is the first web browser to provide support for 360-degree videos to be played directly into virtual reality headsets. Opera offers full page zooming. Instead of just making the text bigger, this feature expands all page elements, including text, images, videos, and other content