But reskinning Chrome won't get you users. Old Opera provided something no other browser had. New Opera is basically Chrome with a couple different shortcuts which can be added to Chrome as well. Most features of the old Opera were UI based, most of which could be put on the webkit engine. But they decided not to, because who cares about users.

If you blank the default_partner_content.json file that will free up every search letter but G for google. Its what I do. Try to keep the whining to a minimum though.

Have you tried what you are spewing or even read OP? It's the old solution. Now if you change even a character in the json, it won't load up.

Let's hope Vivaldi doesn't take too long to release a stable version, can't wait to ditch opera

Sadly, Vivaldi is not that promising right now. I know it's preview, but the speed...

Same problem here. It would be nice to hear an official announcement if this is intentional or they just introduced a new verification for the integrity of the installation, and this is a sideeffect.

You could convince Opera that your default language was English (as far as Wikipedia is concerned) ... no help for the Youtube/Yahoo thing.

How do I convince it? I always had my user interface language set to English, but still, it uses my locales.