We’ve had a lot of questions about Chromium’s transition to Manifest V3, and specifically how your Opera experience with extensions and functional

Opera will always help you block ads natively

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We’ve had a lot of questions about Chromium’s transition to Manifest V3, and specifically how your Opera experience with extensions and functionality like ad blocking will be affected. Good news: We plan to continue supporting Manifest V2 extensions in Opera independently of what will happen to other browsers. This means that users of Opera’s browsers should expect to continue to use non-graded versions of their favorite ad blocker extensions.

Opera will, of course, also continue to offer robust built-in ad blocking regardless of what happens to ad blocker extensions. We have done so since 2016, when we were the first browser to offer this functionality.

The framework under which browser extensions run in Chromium is moving from the current Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. This means that a lot of extensions built on the previous framework are expected to stop working on browsers like Chrome. Many already have.

Opera is built on Chromium, the open-source code that also powers Chrome. This means that changes in Chromium usually affect Opera as well. It also means that we can still make our own modifications on top of this shared codebase.