How to remove alexa toolbar from browser

July 21, 2011 by: sensehow 0

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Are you searching how to remove the alexa toolbar from your browser? I know it is annoying for the common web users when some softwares install toolbars without your consent.Though alexa toolbar is not widely spread in that way,It still gets installed without the users interest on some situations.So,I will help you how to remove/uninstall alexa toolbar from firefox/google chrome/interent explorer.

What is alexa toolbar:

Alexa toolbar is a toolbar created alexa inc. to monitor the website statistics all over the world and provide rankings to websites based on that.It also provides hot user statistics and hot topics around the world at certain period of time.The purpose of alexa is to collect individual user performance on a website and rank it based on it and provide statistics to the website.It has lot of useful phenomenon for the webmasters inside it,But for people other than webmasters there are very little options and might sound useless.

But I have to assure you this,Alexa toolbar is not at all an spyware and the information collected from you will not be shared with any third party under any situation.They only show out performance data and not personal data.But some users feel it slows up internet browsing speed,though it is not confirmed a lot of people remove alexa toolbars for this reason.

How to un-install alexa toolbar:

The simplest method of removing alexa toolbar from your browser is to follow the below steps.

Go to start,settings

Click on the control panel option.

Click add or remove programs.

You will have alexa toolbar option there and just select remove option and alexa toolbar will be removed from your system.Remember your browser must be closed when you uninstall alexa toolbar.

How to remove alexa toolbar from firefox browser:

Open firefox browser

Go to the tools option

A drop down menu will appear and select add-ons in that menu.

You will get a list of add-ons installed in the browser.Select extensions.

Select firefox and select to disable or completely remove it from your browser.

Internet explorer:

If you want to remove alexa toolbar from internet explorer,

Start internet explorer.

Go to the tools option.

Select manage add-ons option.

Find the alexa toolbar and disable or remove it from your browser.

Remove alexa toolbar from Google Chrome:

Google chrome has similar settings and removing the toolbar is easy as other browsers.

Click on the customize and control google chrome button on the browser.

Select the tools option in the right side of the browser and from the drop down select extensions.

Find alexa toolbar and uninstall it from the browser.

Now that you have found how to remove the toolbar,share us what is the major reason you are about to remove it?

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