I'm having a problem with Chrome and one of its extensions, so I want to completely uninstall everything. I've uninstalled Chrome through the Software Center, but when I reinstall it, all of my extensions and preferences are still there.
If I want to start over from scratch, what do I need to do?
Best Answer
For Google Chrome:
Deleting
~/.config/google-chrome(where~is your home directory) should be sufficient. Why don't you try it and see? (Of course, this will delete all your bookmarks too.)If that's not sufficient, you may want to also remove Google Chrome from the Terminal using the
sudo apt-get purge ...command (where...is replaced by the package you want to remove or a space-separated list of the packages you want to remove), or remove it in the Synaptic Package Manager (which you can install in the Software Center if you don't have it; it's itself provided by the packagesynaptic) by right-clicking on the packages you want to remove and clicking "Mark for Complete Removal". These ways of removing packages will remove all global (i.e., non-user-specific) configuration files.For Chromium (the completely open source counterpart to Chrome):
You can do it the same way, just delete
~/.config/chromium. You can also remove the package as mentioned above for Google Chrome. The package that provides Chromium in Ubuntu is calledchromium-browser.