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With the tons of Firefox add-ons out there, you’d eventually find that only some will suit your needs. Even the ones I feature here might not be fitting for the way you use Firefox. Like Web Developer, it can be overkill for the ordinary user.
Having too many add-ons can cause Firefox to consume a lot more memory than it usually does. Even if you try this trick, it might not help much as long as too many functions are running with the add-ons.
Here’s how to remove your running add-ons.
- Click on
Tools -> Add-ons - You have too options – to Disable or to Uninstall
- Uninstalling add-ons take effect when you restart Firefox
11 Responses
20somethingirl
December 26th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
1Removing an add-on seems simple enough, but I just couldn’t figure it out. Your tips are great! It helped me a lot!
Cheers =)
elmek
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
2I just don’t understand why the “uninstall” feature doesn’t remove all of the extension’s data. It seems FF keeps a cache of old extensions or something. How does one clear that?
Regards,
-mc
Kay Lisiecki
January 30th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
3I would like to remove the fox weather add on.
Kathleen
June 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm
4Thank you for this tip. Never thought of looking at the tools
Aerin
April 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
5Ditto what everyone else said – I felt like a dunce not being able to find it!
Aerin
April 25th, 2009 at 11:15 am
6erm, the ditto was for the “thank you”
jaheer
June 18th, 2009 at 5:00 am
7Thank you
Ed Newbold
July 21st, 2009 at 7:21 am
8Sometimes an extension, toolbar (which is installed as add-on), theme or other add-on cannot be uninstalled or removed through the use of the Firefox Add-ons window. The “Uninstall” button on the Add-ons window appears to be disabled or grayed out. In such cases, try the following workarounds to manually force uninstall, remove or delete the ’stubborn’ add-ons, themes, toolbars, or extensions. See:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/05/workaround-to-manually-uninstall-remove-or-delete-firefox-addon-with-add-ons-uninstall-button-disabled/
Tom195
September 11th, 2009 at 11:57 am
9How do I remove add-ons that have the “uninstall” button unavailable? (It’s grey/ghosted). this is an add-on that I did not accept or install and it is not compatible with the current version of firefox (3.5.2).
Thanks.
Zenkon13
September 20th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
10I understand that this information show on how to “disable” the firefox plugins, but I’m asking on how to delete these plugins. My antivirus program was literally destroyed by “browser plugins”. My computer was defenseless to computer viruses. I warn everyone who reads this message to be careful on what plugins you get on your Firefox and update your antivirus program as soon as possible.
Crazy64
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
11You want to allow for experimentation. ,
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