Opera

Opera is a browser family comprising the main Opera browser, Opera Air, Opera GX for gamers, Opera Neon and Opera Mini, with Tab Islands, a free and Pro VPN, an ad blocker, messaging in the sidebar and a built-in AI assistant.

Splitting into distinct browsers for distinct audiences rather than shipping one product with modes is Opera's real strategy, and Opera GX is the clearest success of it. Targeting gamers with CPU and memory limiters is a genuine need rather than a theme, because a browser competing with a game for resources is a real problem and no other vendor treated it as one.

Bundling a free VPN is the feature that gets attention and it deserves a precise reading. A browser VPN protects browser traffic rather than the whole device, which is enough for avoiding a network operator seeing which sites are visited and not enough for the threat models people often assume, so it is genuinely useful within stated limits.

Opera Mini remains the most consequential product in the range even though it gets the least coverage in Western markets, because compressing pages on a server before sending them makes browsing affordable on expensive metered data, which is why it has a large user base in markets where that constraint is the deciding one. Opera is free with a paid VPN Pro tier.