Browser extension

Connect the web to Opal

Opal Connect sends media from Chrome, Edge and Firefox to the desktop app and puts search and playback controls in a side panel.

🧩Chrome · Edge🦊Firefox

Opal Connect

Move from a browser tab to the player

Send the video you're watching to Opal, search your sources and drive playback — without leaving the browser.

  • Send supported page media to the desktop app.
  • Add compatible manga sites as Opal sources.
  • Search across enabled providers from the side panel.
  • Play, pause and seek the current session.
Opal Connect browser side panel with connection status, page actions, search and playback controls

Install

Choose the build for your browser

Every release ships Chrome/Edge and Firefox archives. Download yours above, extract it, then load the folder through the browser's extension tools.

  1. Install and launch the matching Opal desktop release.
  2. Open your browser's extensions page and enable developer mode.
  3. Choose Load unpacked (Chromium) or the temporary add-on option (Firefox), then select the extracted extension.
  4. Open Opal Connect and confirm that it reports the desktop app as connected.

For version-specific details, use the project documentation included with the source.

Need the desktop app first?

Opal Connect works with Opal running on your machine.

Download OpalExtension FAQ