Programmatically uninstall browser extensions

Question

With browsers ability to sync themselves, and reinstall extensions/BHOs. I want to know how would one programatically uninstall extensions/BHOs. I already have the old registry, and extension folder way, which no longer work.

I would like to do this with:

Firefox
Chrome

Maybe it's possible with Puppeteer or similar tool, check their documentation. — wOxxOm, Nov 06 '18 at 04:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '18 at 22:27

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You can use chrome.management.uninstall(string id, object options, function callback) for chrome and browser.management.uninstall for the firefox.

You only need pass an ID of extension to this method.

answered Nov 05 '18 at 22:27

Sergii Rudenko

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So if I don't have any browser up at all, is there a way to issue these outside the browser? – NiteRain Nov 06 '18 at 00:38
No, you can only do it from the extension or from another extension by passing id. – Sergii Rudenko Nov 06 '18 at 00:53
As you can see in the compatibility table Firefox doesn't implement `browser.management.uninstall` or `chrome.management.uninstall`. – evilpie Nov 07 '18 at 18:43

Programmatically uninstall browser extensions

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