Opera also moves to the Blink engine

Google yesterday made a loud announcement about the creation of a more compact and productive browser engine Blink, optimized for Chromium multi- process architecture . The new engine will be the result of a large sweep: 7 thousand files and 4.5 million lines of code will be deleted from the fork of WebKit.

TNW Edition quickly took a comment from representatives of the company Opera. They confirmed the invariance of their position on the binding to the project Chromium. In other words, they are also switching to the open source Blink engine.

As you know, in February of this year, Opera announced the transition to WebKit , abandoning its development Presto, which was conducted since 1995: “All our new products will use the WebKit engine for rendering and V8 for JavaScript processing. They will be based on the open source Chromium browser and its components. Of course, the browser is much more than just an engine, so all these changes for ordinary users will happen somewhere far under the hood, ”the official statement said.
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“When we announced the refusal of Presto, we announced plans to use the Chromium package, and fork and name change have little practical meaning for Opera browsers. So yes, you got it right, ”said a spokesman for Opera in a TNW comment. He also confirmed that both the desktop and mobile versions of Opera browsers are moving to the Blink engine.

PS Opera staff are optimistic about the transition to a new engine, especially they are pleased with the rejection of the vendor prefixes in Blink.