I recently installed Ubuntu and all has been great, except for the web apps feature.
I've tried adding a few web apps, but it's very buggy and not a very good experience. I'm also tired of being asked to add a website as an web app. How can I remove web apps from Ubuntu entirely? I use both Chromium and Firefox.
Best Answer
Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04
To avoid being asked for webapp integration you can use the following command, open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+t) and type:
Tested on both releases with Firefox/Chromium + Launchpad, Facebook and Youtube. No popup asking for a webapp integration.
Removing existing webapps
We can't just remove all packages beginning with
unity-webapps-
as some of them are runtime dependencies of Unity or other packages (like the Ubuntu SDK which requiresunity-webapps-qml
)A safe way is to remove such installed packages not belonging to the gnome section: