Internet, Networking, & Security Browsers The 6 Best Opera Plugins of 2020 Transform Opera into your favorite browser with these six plugins By Susan J. Owens Writer Former Lifewire writer Susan J. Owens is a tech writer focused on AI, blockchain, and virtual machines. Her work appears in InformationWeek, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company. our editorial process LinkedIn Susan J. Owens Updated January 13, 2020 Browsers Chrome Safari Firefox Microsoft Tweet Share Email Opera is a popular web browser developed by a Norwegian company called Opera Software AS. It's available to download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Users enjoy Opera's clean look and fast web browsing experience, but adding excellent plugins takes Opera to new levels of efficiency and productivity. Here's a look at six essential plugins to consider. 01 of 06 Manage Passwords: LastPass What We Like Syncs data across mobile phone and computer. Auto log-off options. Info is encrypted and decrypted locally on your machine. Stores credit card information. What We Don't Like To enable syncing across devices, as well as family sharing, you'll need to pay for Premium. LastPass is a password manager that creates one master password, allowing you to log on to your favorite sites with just one click. With an auto-fill feature, LastPass remembers your usernames, passwords, and other information for multiple accounts. Download LastPass for Opera 02 of 06 Customize Your Feed and Hide Ads: Social Fixer for Facebook What We Like Ability to create predefined filters to hide specific posts, including sponsored posts and political posts. Make photos anonymous by hiding friend and group names. What We Don't Like Still shows ads for "suggested pages" and "people you might know." Not available for mobile browsing. This Opera plugin includes a feature called Stealth Mode to make it easy to scan Facebook quickly to catch up on the latest updates. Like buttons and comment areas are hidden, allowing you to quickly scroll through the News Feed. Without the ability to like, comment, or interact, you can quickly absorb the content you're looking for. Download Social Fixer for Opera 03 of 06 Get a Virtual Gmail Assistant: Boomerang for Gmail What We Like Perfect for sending emails to people in different time zones. Postpone emails so that they appear at the specific time you're ready to respond. Set alerts when you don't receive a response to your email. Perfect for scheduling birthday emails. What We Don't Like The Basic (free) version of Boomerang has a limit of 10 message credits per month. Boomerang counts each email that is scheduled and tracked with Boomerang toward the credits. Read and Sent confirmations are added to the email thread and can make your inbox confusing to navigate. If you've ever wanted to know if and when your emails have been read, or schedule a specific email for a later date, try Boomerang for Gmail. Boomerang makes it possible to integrate email scheduling, reminders, and read notifications. Boomerang comes with a free 30-day trial of Boomerang Pro, which includes unlimited message credits. No billing information is gathered during the free trial. After 30 days, if you don't choose to subscribe to one of the paid subscriptions, you can continue to use the free Basic plan. Paid versions of Boomerang include Personal, which costs $4.99 per month and includes unlimited message credits; Pro, which runs $14.99 per month and includes smart response with machine learning, inbox pause, and recurring messages; and Premium, which costs $49.99 per month, automatically "Boomerangs" every message, and offers a slew of other features, including Salesforce integration. Download the Android or iOS Boomerang app to extend its capabilities to your mobile devices. Download Boomerang for Gmail 04 of 06 Keep Track of the Weather With a Click: Gismeteo What We Like Instantly see detailed weather conditions with a click on the icon to display a pop-up window. Shows hourly updates of temperature forecast. Global weather news is available in the news feed. What We Don't Like No way to minimize the icon on the Opera desktop to keep the temperature on top. Navigation language is a bit awkwardly translated from Russian. Temperature defaults to Celsius. The Gismeteo extension gives you instant access to your local current temperatures as well as an hourly weather forecast. Select your city in the settings menu, and use search to find out what's happening in other cities. Gismeteo lets you customize features, including skins, icons, and language. Download Gismeteo for Opera 05 of 06 Create a Customized Firewall: uMatrix What We Like Gives you a view of tracking how websites have been collecting information from your browsing history. A single click allows you to whitelist/blacklist requests for data. What We Don't Like This extension can be intimidating at first. It requires a learning curve. If you'd like to customize your privacy settings while browsing with Opera, take a look at uMatrix, a point-and-click matrix-based firewall. Once installed, uMatrix works in block-all mode but allows you to create exceptions. You decide what type of data can be downloaded. Download uMatrix for Opera 06 of 06 Use Your Favorite Chrome Extension in Opera: Install Chrome Extensions What We Like Works quickly and seamlessly for any Chrome extension you can't live without. What We Don't Like The Opera plugin only works for extensions, not Chrome Themes. Not available for the mobile version of Opera. While the Opera extension library has quite a bit to offer, it doesn't have the variety of extensions available on Chrome. Now, with Install Chrome Extensions you can have your cake and eat it too. Once you've added this plugin, simply visit the Chrome Web Store, while using the Opera Browser. Once you've found an extension you want to add, open it, and click the green button on the top right that says Add to Opera. Once you're on the Chrome Web Store page, find your extension and click Install. You'll then be redirected to the Chrome extension page, where you'll click Install again to add to Opera. Download Install Chrome Extensions for Opera