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    • mkrasnov
      mkrasnov last edited by

      @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

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      • vicenzo2009
        vicenzo2009 last edited by

        Not a priority for me,but I agree that i´ts annoying

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        • de1ta2t0
          de1ta2t0 last edited by

          The solution worked for me, too.
          But with version 36.0.2130.65 it does not work anymore.

          Can someone confirm that ?

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          • lando242
            lando242 last edited by

            IIRC you have to do it every time you update the browser.

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            • de1ta2t0
              de1ta2t0 last edited by

              Yes, of course i have to do it after every update.
              But with the latest version it does not work.
              I only get an error message that some files are corrupted and i should do a fresh installation.
              After copying the original default_partner_content.json file back everything works fine.

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                AFAIK it doesn't (or shouldn't) work since a while ago as Opera now verifies the file and do not run if it was modified.

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                • igelmitdeagle
                  igelmitdeagle last edited by

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

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                  • blackbird71
                    blackbird71 last edited by

                    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...

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                    • igelmitdeagle
                      igelmitdeagle last edited by

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

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                      • lando242
                        lando242 last edited by

                        Yes, its not like this board is full of 'long time users' with single digit posts counts that come her to cry about the free product not doing every little thing that they want. We would never understand that.

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                        • blackbird71
                          blackbird71 last edited by

                          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...

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                          • canadagoose4ever
                            canadagoose4ever last edited by

                            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.

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