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How To Uninstall Cooliris from Safari on a Mac

Fri, 09/12/2008 - 15:29.
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Cooliris is one of these new gadgets that sound cool in somebody's blog review, but do not live up to an expectation when actually used. Let alone that it is not nearly as useful as it claims to be, Cooliris has been reported to significantly slow down Safari on Macs. Specifically - when viewing FLASH videos like on YouTube. These fellas must have done something terribly wrong.

In any case, the real sad part is - they don't have any human way of uninstalling it. So here is a quick tutorial of how to remove this weed from your computer and let your Safari breath again:

  • Close Safari
  • Trash the Cooliris Previews folder found in $LIBRARY/InputManagers/)
  • Trash the cooliris' .plugin file found in $LIBRARY/Internet Plugins

Depending on whether you installed Cooliris for just your user or system-wide, substitute $LIBRARY with /Users//Library or /System/Library.

Hope this works for you, too.

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Safari-Problems

Submitted by etorsten (not verified) on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 22:39.

after installing the cooliris-plugin my safari crashed several times...
Thank you for pointing out what files I had to remove.

This helped.

You can do this from within

Submitted by David (not verified) on Sun, 10/12/2008 - 08:18.

You can do this from within Safari: go to View > Cooliris > Remove Cooliris. It looks like this removes the files from the locations mentioned. This might be a new feature so you may need to update to the latest version before removing it!

Life Saver

Submitted by Gavin Anderson (not verified) on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 13:56.

Thanks, this worked for me, too. Now Safari does not lock up, and it is using half the actual RAM (and considerably less virtual RAM) than it was using before, according to the Activity Monitor.

Thanks, I'm happy to get rid

Submitted by 1000Zen (not verified) on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 12:16.

Thanks, I'm happy to get rid of this totally useless plugin.

Thanks for the tip. Cant

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 13:21.

Thanks for the tip.
Cant believe those people didnt think of an uninstall method for users....
what ever, the app wasnt worth it.

THXXXXX

Submitted by Zombie (not verified) on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 23:31.

THXXXXX

That''s a nice script. Very

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 19:50.

That''s a nice script. Very helpful deinstalation otherwise it's like free downloadable games

THANK YOU (for posting this deinstallation) THANK YOU!!!!

Submitted by Roger (not verified) on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 09:36.

Your instructions worked for me. CoolIiris caused my Safari 4.0.1 to crash each and every every time I tried to pay off my PayPaL Plus credit card at the PayPal website. Immediately after following your CoolIris deinstallation instructions, I was finally able to pay off my credit card!!

Thanks so much!! you hit it

Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 00:55.

Thanks so much!!
you hit it right on
sounds so cool, but isn't so useful
its crazy that you cant uninstall it

Over at the Apple support

Submitted by MrMark (not verified) on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 00:57.

Over at the Apple support forum there is a useful and very quick but thorough script posted to remove Cooliris. It appears to target additional additional flotsam installed by the app.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730494&tstart=0

Worked well for me!