Chrome on Mac OSX - Can not remove rogue extension
I searched for and found many articles about how to remove a rogue extension from chrome that has been grayed out. Almost all of the articles are for windows users and did not apply to my case, hence I decided to post this question.
I tried deleting everything as per . Also disconnected and deleted my profile from chrome, tried to reset the chrome settings and even uninstalled several times, however this extension called "DGExtension" can not be deleted permanently. Under "chrome://policy/", I noticed ExtensionInstallForcelist with value (jhafcpmngmieaimhldennincnemljiph;), but there is no way to delete it.
Can you please help?
Chrome - Version 46.0.2490.80 (64-bit) Mac OSX - Version 10.10.5
Problematic Extension - DGExtension 6.2.3.3046 ID: jhafcpmngmieaimhldennincnemljiph Msg - (This extension is managed and cannot be removed or disabled.) (Installed by enterprise policy.)
Thank you Milind
12 Answers
Its managed by your corporate policy. You need to check with your company IT Admin if its causing trouble. Ofcourse it will be a little slow.
Remember to do the backups before you follow this guide
- edit the plist files in
/Library/Managed Preferences/${whoami}/com.google.Chrome.plistand/Library/Managed Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist, or/Library/Preferences/..(edit every occurrence ofcom.google.Chrome.plist) on your computer. Remove theExtensionInstallForcelistpart. (you may need to useplutil -convert xml1andplutil -convert binary1to convert the list into an editable format and convert it back) - In
System Preferences→Profiles, find the profile that starts with "Chrome" and has "ExtensionInstallForcelist" in its value, delete it. - run
defaults read com.google.Chrome.plistin terminal - start chrome, go to
chrome://policy/, clickReload Policies - restart chrome, the extension should be gone
