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Disable or remove Add-ons - Waterfox Support

Extensions and themes are types of add-ons for Waterfox. This article explains how you can disable or remove these add-ons.

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Waterfox includes OpenH264 and Google Widevine plugins, another type of add-on. To learn more, see Why is there an OpenH264 plugin in Waterfox? and Watch DRM content on Waterfox.

Disabling and removing extensions

Disabling extensions

Disabling an extension will turn it off without removing it.

  1. Click the menu button , click Add-ons and Themes and select Extensions.
  2. Scroll through the list of extensions.
  3. Click the blue toggle for the extension you wish to disable. fx72 disable extensions

To re-enable the extension, find it in the list of extensions and click the toggle for the corresponding extension. The toggle turns blue when enabled.

To disable extensions that have changed your New Tab, New Window or home page, see An extension changed my New Tab page or home page.

Removing extensions

  1. Click the menu button , click Add-ons and Themes and select Extensions.
  2. Scroll through the list of extensions.
  3. Click the ellipsis (3-dot) icon for the extension you wish to remove and select Remove. fx72 remove extensions

Disabling and removing themes

Waterfox comes with a Default theme and optional Light and Dark themes, but you can add new themes to Waterfox. For additional information, see Use themes to change the look of Waterfox.

Disabling themes

Click the menu button , click Add-ons and Themes and select Themes.

You will see one Enabled theme and a list of Disabled themes.

When the Enabled theme is not the Default theme, you can disable it by clicking Disable.

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This will enable the Default theme.

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When the Enabled theme is the Default theme, it will become disabled when you enable another theme.

Removing themes

You cannot remove the Default, Light or Dark themes that come with Waterfox, but you can remove themes you’ve added to Waterfox. To remove an added theme:

  1. Click the menu button , click Add-ons and Themes and select Themes.
  2. Click the ellipsis (3-dot) icon that displays for the theme that you want to remove, and then select Remove. fx72 remove themes

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If you remove the Enabled theme, the Default theme will become enabled.

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Copyright and Licensing

Modified from Disable or remove Add-ons. Original by Mozilla Contributors. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0.