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Is Opera now owned by Google?

Updated: 10/3/2023
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Helping101

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No, not at all. The company, Opera Software ASA, is still headquartered in Oslo, Norway, and independent of Google or any other company.

Opera 15, which came out in 2013, was the first version that was based on the Chromium/Blink rendering engine, which is the same engine used by Google Chrome. So, maybe that is what confused you. It is common practice for the same rendering engines to be used by varying browsers. For example, Gecko is the same engine that was used by Netscape and is used by Firefox, which was originally an outcropping of Netscape itself anyway. As a further example, Trident (used by internet Explorer), Webkit (used by Apple Safari and previous versions of Google Chrome), and Gecko are all used in a multi-engine web browser named Lunascape Orion, which can be found at http://www.lunascape.tv.


If there is something else that led you to consider the possibility of Opera becoming the intellectual property of Google, feel free to drop me a line and let me know because in my investigation for composing this answer, I found nothing other than the redesign of Opera with the new engine that would lead to that rumor. I am always glad to learn some new bit of news and update my answers here when appropriate.

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When I did a privacy test through an app called history eraser, it showed my browser as opera/ Google. Why is that!
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Opera is not yet owned by Google its still independent

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