Don’t worry, you can still install the extension by simply clicking Add To Opera ( Figure C).įigure C Installing the Grammarly Chrome extension for Opera. Interestingly enough, the Chrome Extensions to Opera icon doesn’t appear when you visit that page. Point the Chrome browser to the Grammarly Chrome extension page. Let’s say you want to install the Grammarly extension–which doesn’t have a version for Opera. When it completes, you should see a new icon in your Opera toolbar ( Figure B).įigure B The extension/add-on has been installed and is ready to go. The installation should happen almost instantaneously. Once there, click Add To Opera ( Figure A).įigure A Adding the Install Chrome Extensions to Opera. Open Opera and point it to the Install Chrome Extensions add-on page. You’ll also need a Google account and to be signed in to that account with Opera. Of course, it is limited to the desktop version of Opera, so don’t bother attempting this on your mobile version.

This process will succeed, regardless of the operating system you are using. You do not need Chrome installed to make this work. The only thing you’ll need is a running instance of Opera. Let me introduce you to this handy bit of magic. Once installed, I could then add any Chrome extension I needed to Opera. It should come as no surprise that the extension worked like a charm. I quickly installed it and gave it a test. After a bit of searching, I came across an Opera extension that allows you to install Chrome extensions on the browser. One particular extension, unavailable to Opera, had become a must-use for me, so I had to figure something out. TechRepublic Premium editorial calendar: IT policies, checklists, toolkits, and research for download Top TechRepublic Academy training courses and software offerings of 2022

SEE: TechRepublic Premium editorial calendar: IT policies, checklists, toolkits, and research for download (TechRepublic Premium) What's hot at TechRepublic Unfortunately, some of those extensions aren’t exactly “cross-platform.” During that migration, I wound up collecting a few extensions that made getting my work done a bit more efficient. It’s been a long journey, but, at least for the time being, Opera is it. In the past year, I’ve made the switch from Firefox to Chrome to Brave to Vivaldi to Opera.

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