Opera One for Windows on Arm is Now Available

One month after announcing that it would deliver an Arm native version of its flagship web browser on Windows, Opera has delivered the goods.

“After seeing a 4x increase in performance, our flagship browser – Opera One – is going native for Windows on Arm,” Opera’s Santiago Benavides García writes in the announcement post. “We achieved this by working with the support from Microsoft’s App Assure team and Qualcomm Technologies.”

Opera says it’s excited by the performance of Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X processors, which arrive in new Copilot+ PCs next week. So excited, that the company explains why these processors are superior to the x86-based PCs that dominate today.

“The Arm-based processors are designed to deliver better performance at lower energy costs,” Benavides García explains. “This means that your PC will perform tasks more efficiently, at cooler temperatures, and for a longer period of time. This is possible thanks to the Arm architecture and its Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), which executes faster and smaller instructions than traditional x86 processors with Complex Instruction Sets (CISC).”

The Arm-native version of Opera One on Windows outperforms the emulated x86 version of the browser by over four times on Arm-based PCs when benchmarked by the industry standard Speedometer tests, Opera says.

If you have a Windows on Arm-based PC, you can download a native version of Opera One today at the Opera website.