Clazh » Uninstall http://www.clazh.com Technology & Design Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:21:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Uninstall Google Gears From Mac OS X, Windows, Linux http://www.clazh.com/uninstall-google-gears-from-mac-os-x-windows-linux/ http://www.clazh.com/uninstall-google-gears-from-mac-os-x-windows-linux/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:23:44 +0000 Arpit Jacob http://www.clazh.com/?p=421 I been playing around with Fluid for Mac, its similar to the Prism. If you don’t know what I am talking about, basically PRISM and FLUID let you run any web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Google Reader etc in a separate instance of a browser, so that you can launch them like desktop Icons.

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I installed google gears to enable offline browsing while using gmail, and google reader. After a while I decided to get rid of it since Little Snitch (a firewall application) told me that Google kept trying to connect every 30 minutes to the internet to check for an update, I found this extremely annoying and completely unnecessary. What was more annoying was that I couldn’t find a way to uninstall it. On a mac uninstalling is pretty straight forward just drag and drop the application on to the trash can. In google gears case it wasn’t installed as an application, and after hunting around I found that the only way to uninstall it is to run a command in terminal. below are the instructions.

  1. First Quit any fluid application including Safari.
  2. In Finder, open your Applications folder.
  3. Open the folder named Utilities.
  4. Open Terminal. alternative is to type Terminal directly in Spotlight
  5. In Terminal, enter the following command (including the quotes): ‘/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Gears.plugin/Contents/Resources/uninstall.command’
  6. Press Enter.
  7. Enter your password when prompted.

For instructions on how to uninstall Google Gears for various other Operating systems.

Windows XP or Vista

  1. Click the Start menu on your computer taskbar.
  2. Select Control Panel.
  3. Double-click Add or Remove Programs (on XP) or Programs and Features (on Vista).
  4. Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
  5. Click the Remove button.

If you’ve installed Google Chrome, Gears is installed by default. To uninstall Gears for Google Chrome, you’ll need to uninstall Google Chrome.

Linux

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Click the Tools menu.
  3. Select Extensions (Firefox 1) or Add-ons (Firefox 2 or later).
  4. Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
  5. Click Uninstall.
  6. Restart Firefox.

Mac OS X

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Click the Tools menu.
  3. Select Extensions (Firefox 1) or Add-ons (Firefox 2 or later).
  4. Select Google Gears in the list of programs.
  5. Click Uninstall.
  6. Restart Firefox.

Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6.0

  1. Select Settings.
  2. If present, select the System tab.
  3. Select Remove Programs.
  4. Select Google Gears from the list.
  5. Click Remove.
  6. Restart your device.

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