A while back, I wrote a tip about how you can find and disable malicious extensions in Safari. Well, Google Chrome has a way to view installed extensions, too, so if you discover that bad things are happening in that particular browser, you can go in and check to see if you’ve got anything enabled that you don’t recognize. To do that, choose “Extensions” from the “Window” menu at the top of your screen while you’re running Chrome…
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…then check out what’s turned on. In my screenshot below, 1Password is enabled, but Application Launcher is not. See the blue toggle?
You can use the associated toggle to disable any extensions you don’t want to use, or click the “Remove” button to get rid of one of them entirely. But Chrome also has a nifty feature that you can use to reset it to its defaults; this’ll help if you find that a bunch of things have gone wrong in the browser with whatever malware has been installed. Sometimes this’ll mean that your search engine has been changed, for example, or Chrome’s startup page is no longer what you want. If that’s the case for you, choose Chrome > Preferences from your menus…
…and then scroll down to find the “Advanced” section.
When you click that, you’ll again scroll down to find “Restore settings to their original defaults.”
Once you click there, Chrome will give you a big ol’ warning on what’s about to happen and exactly what will be reset to defaults.
Choose “Reset settings,” though, and the work will be done. Chrome will likely have flushed out anything that got changed when malware was installed. At that point, you’ll want to go back to Window > Extensions and re-enable any that you use, because as the warning pop-up notes, they’ll all be turned off, even obviously needed items like 1Password. Oh, and if you’re still having trouble after that, download Malwarebytes and run a free scan. That’ll identify any baddies you have floating around outside of your browsers!
This article explains how to download and install Firefox on a Mac.
- If you are updating from a previous version of Firefox, see Update Firefox to the latest release.
Note: This article only applies to Mac. For instructions to install Firefox on Windows, see How to download and install Firefox on Windows.For instructions to install Firefox on Linux, see Install Firefox on Linux.
Make sure your Mac meets the System Requirements for Firefox. If you use an old version of OS X, see this article for more information:
- Visit the Firefox download page in any browser (for example, Apple Safari). It will automatically detect the platform and language on your computer and recommend the best version of Firefox for you.
- Click the green download button to download Firefox.
- Note: If you want to have a choice of the language for your Firefox installation, select the 'Download in another language' link under the download button instead.
- Once the download has completed, the file (Firefox.dmg) should open by itself and pop open a Finder window containing the Firefox application. Drag the Firefox Icon on top of the Applications folder in order to copy it there.
- Note: If you do not see this window, click the Firefox.dmg file that you downloaded to open it.
- After dragging Firefox to the Applications folder, hold down the control key while clicking in the window and select Eject 'Firefox' from the menu.
- You can add Firefox to your dock for easy access. Just open your Applications folder and drag Firefox to the dock.
- Firefox is now ready for use. Just click on its icon in the dock to start it.
When you first start up Firefox, you will be warned that you downloaded Firefox from the Internet. Because you download Firefox from the official site, you can click .
Also, Firefox will not be your default browser and you'll be told about that. That means that when you open a link in your mail application, an Internet shortcut, or HTML document, it will not open in Firefox. If you want Firefox to do those things, click to set it as your default browser. If not or you are just trying out Firefox, click .