diff --git a/browser/components/search/searchplugins/list.json b/browser/components/search/searchplugins/list.json
index 0a79b3d4b167..34d89a776a03 100644
--- a/browser/components/search/searchplugins/list.json
+++ b/browser/components/search/searchplugins/list.json
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
     "uk": {
       "default": {
         "visibleDefaultEngines": [
-          "google-b-d", "bing", "meta-ua", "ddg", "wikipedia-uk", "hotline-ua"
+          "google-b-d", "bing", "ddg", "wikipedia-uk", "hotline-ua"
         ]
       }
     },
diff --git a/browser/components/search/searchplugins/meta-ua.xml b/browser/components/search/searchplugins/meta-ua.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1392dc098010..000000000000
--- a/browser/components/search/searchplugins/meta-ua.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-<!-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
-   - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
-   - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. -->
-
-<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/">
-<ShortName>&lt;META&gt;</ShortName>
-<Description>Українська пошукова система.</Description>
-<InputEncoding>windows-1251</InputEncoding>
-<Image width="16" height="16">data:image/png;base64,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</Image>
-<SearchForm>http://search.meta.ua/</SearchForm>
-<Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://meta.ua/search.asp" resultdomain="meta.ua">
-    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
-    <Param name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search"/>
-</Url>
-<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" method="GET" template="http://meta.ua/suggestions/">
-    <Param name="output" value="fxjson"/>
-    <Param name="q" value="{searchTerms}"/>
-    <Param name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-suggestqueries"/>
-</Url>
-</SearchPlugin>