Here’s how to remove the invasive official Weather widget (and possibly other such widgets, as they roll out) from your Opera Web browser’s start-screen. This method may also work in other Chrome-based browsers.
1. Type or paste chrome://flags in the browser taskbar. Press Return on your keyboard.
2. Scroll down the list, find it, disable it…
3. Then click the “Relaunch” button at the bottom of the page. This will relaunch the Web browser and apply the new settings. This special Flags page, as you can see, does not work like the main Settings page does, where changes take effect immediately. A restart of the browser is needed from the Flags page.
Update: this has now been moved from Experimental, and made public for all Opera users. As of December 2020 you now turn it off in the main Settings…
