How to disable and or remove extensions from supported Web Browsers

There are a number of reasons that you may need to uninstall a browser extension: you tried something that you don't need anymore, you found a better alternative, or you have unnecessary or potentially insecure extensions installed.  Below, we outline the steps needed to remove an extension.

Google Chrome

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. At the top right, select the menu button (it looks like three vertical dots:More).
  3. Choose Extensions then Manage extensions.
  4. Find the extension you want to remove and click the Remove button on it.
  5. To confirm, select Remove.

Screenshot of the "All Extensions" window in Chrome with the "Remove" button next to an extension highlighted

Microsoft Edge

  1. At the top right of your browser, click on the three horizontal dots.
  2. Click Extensions in the menu.
    Screenshot of Microsoft Edge with the menu button and the Extensions option within the menu highlighted with red arrows
     
  3. Click Manage extensions.
  4. Click Remove next to any extension that you want to remove.
  5. Click Remove again on the confirmation prompt that comes up to remove the extension.
    Screenshof of the plugin removal confirmation window (in this case showing removal of the Google Docs Offline plugin)
     

 

 

Mozilla Firefox

Removing extensions

  1. Right click the extension icon to the right of the address bar. 
  2. Select Extensions on the left side column.
    2. Scroll through the list of Extensions.
    3. Click the ellipsis Fx107-Addons-3dotIcon (3-dot) icon for the extension you wish to remove and select Remove

 

Safari

  1. Choose Safari > Settings 

  1. The click the Extensions Icon on the top Toolbar

  2. To Uninstall an extension, select the extension and click the Uninstall button.

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