However, most plugins come with their own uninstallation utilities. Find the extension you want to disable and click the Disable button to the right of the description.Īs mentioned earlier, plugins cannot be manually uninstalled from within Firefox, at least easily. If you closed the Add-ons Manager after disabling plugins, open it again as described earlier in this article.
To disable an extension, click the Extensions tab on the left side of the Add-ons Manager. That allows you to easily enable them again if you want to use them. To speed up Firefox, you can disable extensions without having to uninstall them. However, the more extensions you install, the slower Firefox can become. You can add all kinds of additional functionality to Firefox through the use of extensions, such as extensions to block advertisements, download videos, integrate with social networking sites, enhance Firefox features, and even add features available in other browsers. You should be safe disabling almost every plugin except for Flash, which is used on a lot of sites on the web. NOTE: All disabled plugins are moved to the end of the list of plugins. The disabled plugins display grayed out and the Disable button becomes an Enable button you can use to re-enable the plugin, should you want to. For each plugin you want to disable, click the corresponding Disable button.
Click the Plugins tab on the left side of the tab.
