Opera vs Mozilla Firefox

Opera is a platform-independent web browser. It was developed by Opera software company. Its initial release was in 1995 and the latest version was released in 2022. It is based on chromium but it has certain advanced features. It is available in nearly 42 languages. This web browser was built using the C++ programming language. It supports various operating systems like Windows, Mac etc. 

Firefox is one of the widely used web browsers as it is free for everybody means you don’t need to pay any money for its use but you should follow the license agreement and community guidelines for its use. Development credit for this software goes to Mozilla Foundation.

Following is a table of differences between Opera and Firefox:

	Opera	Mozilla Firefox
1.	Opera is also a good web browser but it has a small market share of around 2 percent.	It is a popular web browser and captures a market share of 3.4 percent.
2.	It is a chromium-based web browser.	It is based on Netscape source code.
3.	It is a very old web browser and initially, it was launched in 1995.	The initial version was launched in 2002.
4.	Built-in speed dial feature is available in this web browser.	It does not have built-in speed dial functionality.
5.	Its performance is a little lower as compared to Firefox based on standard performance tests.	Its performance is better than opera based on standard tests.
6.	Battery, RAM, and Processor consumption are more as compared to Mozilla Firefox.	It is a resource-efficient web browser and uses fewer resources as compared to Opera.
7.	It also has Google as its default search engine but other options are also available like DuckDuckGo.	The default search engine is Google.
8.	Opera does not support text to speech features.	It supports text to speech feature.