Opera also goes to the Blink engine

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

TNW promptly took a comment from Opera. They confirmed the immutability of their position in relation to the Chromium project. 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 his Presto development, which has been underway since 1995: “All of our new products will use the WebKit engine for rendering and V8 for processing JavaScript. 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 occur somewhere far under the hood, ”the official statement said.

“When we announced the abandonment of Presto, we announced plans to use the Chromium package, and fork and name change have little practical significance for Opera browsers. So yes, you got it right, ”said an Opera spokesman in a TNW comment. He also confirmed that both desktop and mobile versions of Opera browsers are switching to the Blink engine.

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