Adam Kos Opera recently announced that its web browser now runs natively for macOS on the M1 chip, bringing a faster and smoother web browsing experience to these Apple Silicon-powered computers. And since the iOS version of the app was also recently updated, it's a strong player to dethrone the dominance of Google's Safari or Chrome. Technically speaking, of course the Opera browser worked on these machines before, but native support allows for a faster and more efficient experience. According to the company, the new version of the application works up to 2x faster than the previous one. Compared to other browsers, Opera is known for its unique features such as free VPN, integrated tracking blocker, integrated social media buttons and crypto wallet.
In addition to support for Apple Silicon computers, the company also announced the ability to set your own keyboard shortcuts to access its functionality Flow, as well as the built-in crypto wallet and player. At the same time, it is My on iOS Flow a new feature that allows users to share items, links and files between the browser on the mobile system and macOS with end-to-end encryption, and without the need to sign in. Pairing takes place on the basis of a QR code. If you had no idea what you would use such functions for, it is actually a certain analogy AirDrop, which Apple offers us. You can thus send data from one platform to another within browsers.
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The history of Opera goes back to 1995, but we know its modern form only from version 7, which was released in January 2003. However, if we are talking about mobile Opera, it saw a rapid increase in users last year, by a full 65% . With iOS 14 came the possibility to change the default client, which many users obviously took advantage of. So if for some reason neither Safari nor Google Chrome suits you, this is an ideal alternative. This is also because you can very easily control the mobile Opera with just one hand, because all the offers are presented to you at the bottom edge of the display.
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Of course, this is not the only browser that will run natively on M1 processors. Of the big players, he actually comes last. It has been available since November Chrome from Google, Firefox came up with its solution in December of last year. But it is clear what took Opera so long. She was not only interested in publishing the title, but also bringing some news with it.
Why should Safari be forgotten? A bit of a bad headline. As a result, I am completely omitting the article as such.
For some who use older machines like me Mb Pro 2011 (16Gb RAM, SSD) this is good to know. Safari is quite performance limiting for me even though I still use it as my default browser. Unfortunately, even Chrome is faster now.