Opera system requirements

These requirements only apply to Opera. Third-party plug-ins such as Flash, Java, and others may have additional requirements.

Windows

Recommended configuration

  • Windows XP or later
  • 256 MB of RAM
  • 100 MB of free disk space

Note: From Opera 12, both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows are supported.

Minimum configuration

  • Windows XP
  • 128 MB of RAM
  • 30 MB of free disk space

Mac

Opera 12

OS X Leopard (10.5), or greater: 32-bit and 64-bit Intel systems supported

Opera 11.50 to 11.64

OS X Leopard (10.5), or greater: Only Intel-based systems supported

Opera 11

Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) or higher: Only Intel-based systems supported

Opera 10

Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) or higher: Intel- or PowerPC-based systems supported (hence the larger file size)

Opera 9

Mac OS X Panther (10.3) or higher (OS X Jaguar (10.2) may work but is officially unsupported): Intel- and PowerPC-based systems supported (hence the larger file size)

Opera 8

Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2) or higher: PowerPC-based systems supported

Opera 7

Mac OS X Puma (10.1) or higher: PowerPC-based systems supported

Opera 6

Mac OS 9 or higher: PowerPC-based systems supported

Opera 5

Mac OS 7.5-OS 9 (Opera 5 will not run on OS X): PowerPC-based systems supported

Linux and FreeBSD

Opera will run on any modern Linux distribution and FreeBSD 7 or later with Xorg installed, on i386 and x86_64 CPUs.

Recent versions of the following Linux distributions are officially supported:

  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • RedHat
  • Ubuntu
  • openSUSE

Although not officially supported, we strive to make Opera work on the following distributions, and it normally does:

  • Gentoo
  • Arch
  • CentOS
  • MEPIS
  • Mandriva
  • Mint
  • Sabayon
  • Slackware

Note: Opera may run on older hardware or an older version of an operating system however it is likely that it will be less usable. You can download an earlier version of Opera that may work with your system from our download page. Just click the links for More Options > Show other versions.

If you are using old hardware or an old operating system and Opera fails to start up, unfortunately Opera is not suited to your system.

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