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Opera

• Developer: Opera
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 1995
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: Presto (through version 12), Blink (since version 15)

Overview

Opera is a cross-platform web browser developed by Opera.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js detects these Opera products, editions, and historical mobile names separately:

Browser	Description
Opera	Opera's main cross-platform browser.
Opera GX	Opera's gaming-focused browser.
Opera Mini	Opera's mobile browser focused on saving data.
Opera Mobile	The former mobile browser detected as Opera Mobi by UAParser.js.
Opera Tablet	The former tablet version of Opera Mobile.
Opera Touch	Opera's mobile browser later renamed Opera Browser.
Opera Coast	Opera's discontinued touch-focused mobile browser.
Opera Neon	Opera's experimental concept browser.

History

Opera switched its desktop browser from the Presto engine to a Chromium-based platform with Opera 15 in 2013. Its main user-agent identifier also changed from Opera/ to OPR/.

User-Agent Examples

Windows

# Opera < 9.80 on Windows
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) Opera 6.01 [en]

macOS

# Opera < 9.80 on macOS
Opera/8.5 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X; U; en)

Linux

# Opera >= 9.80
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; Linux Mint; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.10

# Opera >= 14
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.123 Mobile Safari/537.22 OPR/14.0.1025.52315

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) Opera 6.01 [en]';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Opera", version: "6.01", major: "6"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.OPERA));
// true