and one lives with a sense of gratitude that somebody else has bothered to make a nifty tool for free that one doesn't have to code and debug themself - if even they could.
Perhaps you can understand that...

A sense of gratitude. Ah... something I very much doubt igelmitdeagle would grasp. But it was a good reminder for all of us. Thanks.

Just a long time opera user that still remembers the good days. But you won't understand that.

You don't know me any more than I know you. What I do know is that I was running micro-computers in the earliest days when they were programmed via machine code using front-panel toggle switches; I've lived through the earliest ARPAnet days and the onset of the Internet, Mosaic browsers, IE, Netscape, and all the others including some of the earliest Opera versions. One of the things I learned very early on is that with free software, you get exactly what you get, good and not-so-good. One learns to tweak it around the edges and maybe internally or else live with its limitations; one supplies its makers with suggestions and bug reports with little expectation of recognition; one learns to use alternate software wherever possible, if only for 'just in case'; and one lives with a sense of gratitude that somebody else has bothered to make a nifty tool for free that one doesn't have to code and debug themself - if even they could.

Perhaps you can understand that...

Are the devs actively trying to p*** the users off? I just want to use "y" for my youtube search engine. Not f****** yahoo.

Feeling a bit entitled are we? You can always demand your money back...

Can someone confirm that ?

@kaki87 You can remove them, by following the below steps:

1. Open opera:about, copy the path to the profile (Paths > Profile), and make a note of the path to the installation root (Paths > Install), close the browser,
2. Open your file explorer, and navigate to the installationroot\operaversion\resources subfolder (eg. installationroot\36.0.2130.46\resources), rename the default_partner_content.json to eg. default_partner-old, and overwrite the default_partner_content.json with ab_tests.json,
3. Navigate to the profile folder, and delete the default_partner_content.json, relaunch the browser.
   In case, that the above desn't work with the ab_tests.json from your installation, you can use this one, enjoy!

Kaki87: Thank you so much!!!
Since the update to Opera 31 I'm trying to get rid of the deafult search engines and it was impossible.
Just because of curiousity, I searched fo way today and find your workaround!

Great!!!
Thank you so much!!!

You HAVE TO have a look here: https://i.stack.imgur.com/yzDIg.png

@kaki87, perhaps it's because I've just come out of a major siege of repairing some other software that I perhaps rashly felt a need to try to modify for various reasons, but 'removing' something already built into software just because one doesn't use it seems like a lot of bother/trouble, unless there's some kind of major payback at the end like reducing size, RAM loading, adding functionality, etc. I've no problem with your wanting to do it, but it did strike me as puzzling and I wondered what your hoped-for 'payoff' was. Anyhow, I'm always interested in different ways users use and tweak their browsers - and why.

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to remove default search engine choices you don't use?

Because I don't use it ^^

@kaki87 You can remove them, by following the below steps:

1. Open opera:about, copy the path to the profile (Paths > Profile), and make a note of the path to the installation root (Paths > Install), close the browser,
2. Open your file explorer, and navigate to the installationroot\operaversion\resources subfolder (eg. installationroot\36.0.2130.46\resources), rename the default_partner_content.json to eg. default_partner-old, and overwrite the default_partner_content.json with ab_tests.json,
3. Navigate to the profile folder, and delete the default_partner_content.json, relaunch the browser.
   In case, that the above desn't work with the ab_tests.json from your installation, you can use this one, enjoy!

That's working, thanks !

1. Open opera:about, copy the path to the profile (Paths > Profile), and make a note of the path to the installation root (Paths > Install), close the browser,

2. Open your file explorer, and navigate to the installationroot\operaversion\resources subfolder (eg. installationroot\36.0.2130.46\resources), rename the default_partner_content.json to eg. default_partner-old, and overwrite the default_partner_content.json with ab_tests.json,

3. Navigate to the profile folder, and delete the default_partner_content.json, relaunch the browser.

In case, that the above desn't work with the ab_tests.json from your installation, you can use this one, enjoy!