With the release of Opera 15 the developers of one of the oldest and most popular browsers for surfing the internet has changed its face becoming very similar to Google Chrome and adopting the same rendering engine called Blink / Webkit. Although, as already noted, Opera 15 loses many of the typical features of the previous Opera 11 and 12, the browser certainly gains in compatibility with web applications, including those created specifically for Google Chrome.
Google browser extensions can also be installed in Opera 15 and become the real added value of this alternative browser.
Vice versa, on Chrome it is possible to install the few but precious extensions developed for Opera.
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To install extensions from the Chrome Web Store on the Opera 15 browser, you must install the Download Chrome Extension on Opera.
After installation, go to the Opera extension management page from the main menu to enable it.
Once enabled, visit the Chrome Web Store and note that all extensions can be installed by pressing the red Add to Opera button .
For example, try installing the Navigaweb extension for Chrome which is now also compatible for Opera.
If the installed extension has been deactivated and does not appear, click on the Opera button in the upper left corner of the window go to Extensions and activate it.
Only Chrome extensions are compatible with Opera, not applications.
If, on the other hand, you want to install Opera extensions in Google Chrome instead you have to do a certain configuration .
Start by visiting the Opera extensions page that you want to add to Chrome, right-click on the green "Add to Opera" button and save the content by downloading the Opera extension as a file with the .NEX extension.
Change the name of this file by changing the .nex to .crx which is the format supported by Chrome.
Finally, open the extensions page in Chrome ( chrome: // extensions ) and drag the downloaded and renamed .crx file onto it.
This way you can also install scripts in Chrome.
