Opera has become the latest Chromium browser for Windows on Arm, fueling industry talk about Microsoft's plans for the neglected operating system.
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Opera is a niche player in the Windows browser world. Loved by fans approaching its 30th anniversary. It switched to Chromium just over a decade ago, and recently succumbed to the AI hype with a "reimagining" of its flagship product.
A native version for Windows on Arm is the latest in a series of Chromium-based browser releases. In March, Chrome was finally released for Windows on Arm, and Opera has followed suit.
We booted up our Windows on Arm device and confirmed that the browser does indeed open as an Arm64 process rather than the dreaded x64 emulation and – as with early versions of native Chrome – did indeed feel subjectively faster, though not the dramatic increase in performance as claimed in Opera's marketing materials.
