@leocg That is, in no way a removal of this tab, it is a relocation, and it does not do anything to help my issues.

Please read the entire post: I want to remove this, not simply relocate it.

Hi! PC Gamer here - since I know at least one response will be "eugh this is a gamer browser", I'm cutting that short now - who is sick and tired of having extra space taken up by a tab that, realistically, does nothing for me but shove ads in my face.

How do I get rid of it? It's taking up space I could be using for something else, and it's causing a lot of background running that has begun causing issues with trying to use my browser to look something up while running a game any heftier than a file that can be run on Dolphin.

I know for a fact that we used to be able to remove this thing. Why change it to where it must always be present? Is there an obscured setting I am missing now that there's been several updates?

@leocg unfortunately, that didn't work.

It went through the entire installation process and then went "app not installed! :)" like a piece of garbage.

So, basically, I want to revert Opera to the version just previous of this one (I have V75, if I'm understanding correctly).

the reason for this is I have been using Opera to also look at my social media on many websites because I don't like app clutter, and thanks to some updates on some of the social media sites, the mobile format on browsers updated past a certain point is not only unsightly, but entirely unusable just like they are on their sadly broken apps — the issue lies in that I cannot find a straight answer on how to actually do this, even from these forums.

All the forum posts I see basically say either "go to this website that has not been updated since 2012", or "get the previous version from Opera themselves, but I won't tell you anything more than that", and it's quite frustrating.

Can someone please help me here?