Hey all,

Modern browsing is all about juggling different tasks and streams at once. You’re balancing a video call for work, keeping a Twitch stream in your peripheral vision, and trying to listen to a podcast that was recorded way too quietly.

If you’ve been using Opera, you probably know that the browser is packed with built-in tools for multitasking and watching videos across platforms. The Video Popout feature that displays the picture-in-picture or the native ad blocker are examples of this – they just make the experience of streaming so much better.

With this update we’re adding direct access to YouTube and Twitch to the sidebar and improving some of those existing tools further, bringing three major upgrades designed to give you easy access and complete control over your video, audio, and active tabs.

For the true media multitaskers, switching tabs back and forth to check on a live stream or a tutorial is a hassle – and we all need our streams while we work, how else do you think I write these blog posts?