I installed Skype on my machine and it also installed the friggin browser Highlighter extension in Firefox…when you open the extension manager it’s grayed out because the pricks don’t want you to remove it.
First I uninstalled Skype and restarted my machine, but that didn’t work.
Then I closed Firefox, went to Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/Extensions and deleted the browser highlighter folder and restarted Firefox…it was then gone, but I’m sure it left some junk on my machine…I’ll have to do a search and remove any other crap.
I think when I installed Skype, I wasn’t paying attention and just kept clicking next…I do believe it asked but it was too late…there was no back button.
I just reinstalled Skype and after you click the first “next” button, the Browser Highlighter screen appears…make sure you un-check the box if you don’t want that crap installed on your machine when installing Skype!
I just had a similar problem with another program installing crap on my machine without asking…this one was worse, you can read about it here: Removing Bing Toolbar.
Tags: Removing Browser Highlighter Extension, Removing eBay Browser Highlighter, Skype and browser highlighter
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