{"id":29438,"date":"2012-10-05T14:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=29438"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:43:32","slug":"how-to-remove-toolbars-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-remove-toolbars-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to remove toolbars in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve accidentally installed a toolbar in <a href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/\">Google Chrome<\/a>, or if you want to remove one that you don&#8217;t use anymore, here&#8217;s how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been experiencing performance issues with Chrome, it may well be a <strong>toolbar <\/strong>that is causing problems, so it&#8217;s a good idea to <strong>follow this procedure<\/strong> to check if you&#8217;ve got any installed.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the process is exactly the same on Windows as it is on <a href=\"http:\/\/google-chrome.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Google Chrome for Mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Customize and control<\/h3>\n<p>Click the <strong>Customize and xontrol<\/strong> symbol in the top-right corner of Chrome<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29442\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px\" title=\"Chrome settings\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Chrome-settings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>2. Extensions<\/h3>\n<p>Go to <strong>Extensions<\/strong> along the left-hand column, and you&#8217;ll see the toolbars that are installed. Click on the garbage can symbol, on the right next to each extension, to remove them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29444\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px\" title=\"Chrome Extensions 2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/Chrome-Extensions-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"204\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>3. Confirm<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Confirm<\/strong> the removal, and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29447\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px\" title=\"extension removal confirmation chrome\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/extension-removal-confirmation-chrome.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/extension-removal-confirmation-chrome.png 334w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/extension-removal-confirmation-chrome-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The good thing about Chrome is that no restart is required after removing Extensions, so you can continue browsing immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re looking for more info about Chrome, check out this tutorial on <a title=\"Where's that annoying music coming from? Chrome will tell you\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/chrome-helps-with-noisy-tabs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to find noisy tabs<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve accidentally installed a toolbar in Google Chrome, or if you want to remove one that you don&#8217;t use anymore, here&#8217;s how to do it. If you&#8217;ve been experiencing performance issues with Chrome, it may well be a toolbar that is causing problems, so it&#8217;s a good idea to follow this procedure to check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-remove-toolbars-in-chrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to remove toolbars in Chrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-29438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333602,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29438\/revisions\/333602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=29438"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=29438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}