Opera is Chromium-browser with Webkit engine

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Browserbouwer Opera trades its own rendering engine Presto for Webkit, the engine that include Apple and Google use for their browsers. Future versions of Opera will also be based on Chromium.

The transition in which Opera is Chromium based, will be gradual, says Opera. Likely to mobile browsers as first use of the Webkit engine. Some time ago there was information on Ice, a Opera browser for iOS and Android, that uses the Webkit engine.

Chromium is the opensourcebrowser on which Google Chrome is based on. Opera will be available later this month, on telecombeurs Mobile World Congress, its first Webkit browser, show. That browser will run on Android. When the desktop version of Opera will proceed and whether there are versions continue with operas own rendering engine Presto is unclear. Opera will actively contribute to Webkit and Chromium with the patches.

Thanks to the move hopes Opera more time and manpower for the implementation of new features. The development of a rendering engine takes a lot of time. The transition from Opera to Webkit, there remain three major rendering engines: Webkit of Chrome, Chromium, Safari, and Opera, Gecko from Firefox, and Trident of Internet Explorer. Many mobile browsers, including iOS, Android and BlackBerry 10, are also based on Webkit.

Opera has been on the market for desktop web browsers with a market share of around 1 percent according to Statcounter. On Tweakers, the percentage is slightly higher; in the past month used 1,76 percent of the visitors, an Opera browser.