Uninstall Opera Application in Mac OS X – Opera removal steps from Mac OS X

Want to uninstall Opera apps? Not able to find a way to uninstall Opera completely from your Mac Machine? Is your Mac machine giving error after manually uninstalling Opera application?

Uninstalling Opera in mac is just a different approach than in Windows OS. Windows OS provides a option to uninstall application or application manufactures provides uninstaller with the application. But in Mac OS X there is nothing like uninstall utility. To uninstall the Opera you simply need to drag & drop the Opera application bundles to trash, that's it. STOP this is not the end there is more to properly uninstalling the Opera from your machine.

Opera Bundles – The Application Bundle

Drag & Drop leaves the associated files of Opera application. Normally, it is thought that all the associated files of a application is saved in the one folder but it is not so. Opera supported files & preference files are saved in other location than the Opera Package folder. So you need to get all these files deleted manually. Deleting all the left overs of Opera is not that easy, you need to find all the location where Opera has saved the files. Some of the location where Opera would have saved the files are ~/Library/Preferences/[] ~/Library/Application Support/[]

Recommendation You should always use the Award winning tool to Uninstall Opera completely from your Mac machine.

Using Finder the remove the Opera Application Bundles & Additional Files

To Manually uninstall Opera & all associated files

Start the Activity monitor to look for the processes running, if you find the Opera application process running then quit it, make sure that Opera processes is not running.
Start finder to look for the Opera name.
Searching "Opera" vs "Contents"
Delete all files and folders related to the Opera app.
A reboot might be necessary to completely remove some apps.