How to Uninstall Opera on Mac

Are you looking for a comprehensive guide on how to delete Opera from your Mac? You are on the right page. From this article, you will learn how to uninstall Opera on Mac completely with its support files. We will demonstrate two step-by-step guides of two ways to do it.

Contents:

1. What is Opera, and why uninstall it from Mac?

2. Deleting Opera with a few clicks.

Easy

1 min

3. Deleting Opera manually.

Hard

16 min

4. FAQs.

Video Guide: How to delete Opera from Mac

What is Opera, and why uninstall it?

Opera is a popular multiplatform web browser developed by the Opera Software Norwegian company. It is a safe browser that regularly improves its security. However, many users complain that the browser has poor performance compared to some other popular ones. Due to this, you might want to switch to another web browser and delete Opera from your Mac.

Also, every application on macOS creates caches and preference files that take up space on your hard drive. If you have installed Opera on your computer, but you usually use another browser, we recommend uninstalling it. This will clean up your Mac from unneeded junk files and create some more free space.

From the guides below you can learn how to do it correctly so that no leftover files left behind.

How to delete Opera from Mac using the uninstaller

The fastest way to remove any application is to use a specialized Mac uninstaller tool. We will use the App Cleaner & Uninstaller application. This is a tool to completely remove Opera or any programs with just a few clicks.

App Cleaner & Uninstaller will automatically find all the support files of the app, such as cache files, logs, cookies, temporary files. It will list all service files and allow you to get rid of the browser completely.

Steps to uninstall Opera on Mac:

Download and launch App Cleaner & Uninstaller.
Select Opera in the list of applications.
Click on Uninstall.
Confirm the removal.

Opera selected for complete removal with App Cleaner & Uninstaller

That’s all.

Please note, that even if you have already moved Opera into the Trash from the simple guide, App Cleaner & Uninstaller will find all the leftovers of the browser. Just switch to the Remaining Files. Here you can find and remove all leftovers and broken service files of removed apps.

How to uninstall Opera from Mac manually

Deleting Opera on Mac by just a simple drag-and-drop into the Trash is not enough. In this case, all Opera’s service files remain on your disk and take up space. To completely remove the software, you also have to find and remove its support files.

The manual method of uninstalling apps requires understanding the macOS catalog system which might take much time. If you are a new Mac user, we highly recommend that you first learn about the hidden Library folder from one of our previous articles. Also, you should be careful, so you don’t remove important files by accident, which might damage the macOS system’s work.

Steps to delete Opera from Mac completely:

Quit Opera from the Dock menu.
Make sure there are no background running processes related to Opera. For this, open the Activity Monitor utility → in the CPU tab, select the processes associated with Opera → click the Х icon in the left corner of the window to close them.
Confirm the action by clicking the Quit or Force Quit button.
Go to Finder → Applications and move Opera into the Trash.
Now, you need to find and delete all the leftover files. They are located in the Library folder. Open Finder → press Command+Shift+G on your keyboard.
Type ~/Library in the search field and press Return.
Find the Caches folder → com.operasoftware.Opera and remove this subfolder.
Please note that in some cases, the apps may have other service files on your Mac that are spread out in other subfolders, such as:
- ~/Library/Cookies
- ~/Library/Application Support
- ~/Library/Containers
- ~/Library/Preferences
- Other locations

Once you remove all Opera service files, empty the Trash bin to get rid of all files entirely.

If you do not want to waste your time but want to make the process of finding Opera’s hidden leftover files easier, you might want to use a free tool from Nektony called Funter.

Here is how to find apps’ support files with Funter:

Launch Funter.
Click on Funter’s icon in the toolbar.
Enter the word Opera into the search line and press Return. You will see the list of all files related to your query.
Check the results and remove all hidden files associated with the Opera application.
After that, just empty your Trash.

Funter's window showing Opera remaining files

Conclusion If you find the manual method of uninstalling Opera complicated, we recommend using App Cleaner & Uninstaller. It will automatically locate all leftover files and completely remove the browser from your device.

FAQs about Opera

Is Opera browser safe?

All of the top browsers for Mac (Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera) are reasonably safe. Opera is regularly updated, the developers are working on improving Opera’s security and safety. However, you should always be careful when visiting fishy websites and clicking suspicious links.

Does Opera work stable on Mac?

The Opera browser supports Macs with both Apple M1 processors and Intel-based chips. If you regularly update Opera on your Mac, it will provide a stable and smooth performance.

Cannot uninstall Opera. What to do?

Before uninstalling Opera, you should quit the browser and ensure you don’t have its running processes working in the background. This will help to prevent issues when removing Opera. Use App Cleaner & Uninstaller to uninstall Opera from your Mac. This tool will completely remove the browser with all of its service files. Thus you will not get any more pop-ups and notifications from Opera.