Opera Browser

Q: Is Opera One Built on Chromium?

Opera, like Arc and Chrome is also built atop of Google's open-source Chromium engine.

Q: How Does Opera Make Money?

Not unlike most browser competitors in the space, Opera gets paid by Google (primarily) by directing people to the search engine (and Google making ad revenue from that traffic). They actually make the majority of their money by selling advertising, with Google Search payment coming in at slightly less than that.

Q: Is Opera Private and Safe?

Opera as a browser is relatively safe, although they've gotten into some hot water surrounding their ownership by Kunlun Tech, a Chinese company. What's more is that they make most of their money from advertising (more even than what Google pays them for sending search traffic—unlike other browsers who also make their main revenue from Google: Safari, Brave, and even Firefox), so it's quite clear that they are collecting and selling user data.

Updated Jun 9, 2026

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They've tried staying relevant by spinning up Opera GX (for gamers), and more recently Opera One (attempting to copy much of the Arc Browser onboarding experience and core features like spaces and folders).

But at the end of the day, it's just the same browser as it was before with a new onboarding flow and some slick animations. We'd still recommend checking out Arc instead. Although we're glad to see Opera attempting to stay more relevant in the space.

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What is Opera One Browser?

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Opera has rebranded their browser once again—from Opera to Opera GX (for gamers), and now Opera One. It's the same Opera Browser you're probably familiar with, but now with a new onboarding experience (clearly a hat-tip to that of Arc Browser).

Key Features

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Opera has all of the normal features you'd expect out of a browser like bookmarks, but some of the less common features are:

Workspaces

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You can tell that Arc has been influencing the browser market because what they improved upon the idea of "Profiles" building out "Spaces", you now have Opera copying them, this time as "Workspaces":

Workspaces Functionality in Opera

Credit where credit is due on the animation for switching spaces (err I mean workspaces) is pretty slick. And you can have as many workspaces as you'd like.

Don't let that fool you though, workspaces in Opera don't allow you to change Chromium profiles when switching between them, they share all cookies/cache as well, so you're not going to be able to totally separate environments like logging into your personal Gmail and X in one workspace, with your work Gmail and X logged in in the other space. (This is the main differentiation when comparing this feature in Arc Browser vs Opera, I wish it gave you the option to treat each workspace as totally separate environments).

Tab Groups

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You can create groups of tabs in the top if you want similar sites to be together for easy expanding/collapsing. If you open up 2 or more of the sam site, it'll automatically create a tab group for that site.

Opera Tab Grouping

Privacy & Security Concerns

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Opera has been called out a bit lately for being owned by a Chinese company, and for making most of its revenue from Ads, meaning they very well are tracking, storing, and selling details about how you're using the browser.

Final Verdict

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We applaud Opera for staying relevant, and if you're on this page, it's because they had some type of marketing that has made you consider it, and to that I say, well done Opera! (We've seen them paying YouTube content creators a lot lately in-fact).

With all of that being said, while they are doing some cool and impressive work, there are some concerns, and we do believe there are other better options available (that you don't need to sacrifice as much on the privacy front for example).

Instead, go and check out what we recommend as the best browsers currently on the market.