Hi guys. Today I will show you How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X . If you really don’t want to read this whole post and go through all the steps, you can just Download Mac Uninstaller. If not, than we will begin our tutorial How to Uninstall Safari from Mac OS X.
Safari is a basic system application on your Macbook. First of all you need to understand that removing an application and totally deleting the application are two different things. Because when you just remove it through your Trash icon you don’t delete your application completely. You still have a lot of different system files on your Macbook which take free space on your Mac.
Whatever, we have three different ways on How to Delete Safari from Mac. The first one is uses Terminal (go down and read “How to delete Safari from Mac OS X with Terminal”). The second one involves your Trash (go below to “How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X Manually”). And the third one is the fastest and safest way of How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X (just go down to How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X with CleanMyMac 2).
Let’s look at how it’s works. You need to take those steps:
- Quit Safari
- Open Terminal
- Type: cd /Applications/
- Type: sudo rm -R Safari.app
- Enter your password
- Type: cd /private/var/db/receipts/
- Type: ls -al
- Make note of the Safari BOM’s
- Remove them One by one Typing: sudo pkgutil –forget PkgNameHere (ex: sudo pkgutil –forget com.apple.pkg.Safari)
Yay, we did it! But be very careful, there’s a 99.999% chance that removing Safari will break AT LEAST one thing in your OS X. So it can be dangerous for your system. Now you know How to Remove Safari from Mac OS X using Terminal.
Here we have simpler way of How to uninstall Safari from your Mac OS X manually. It contains 4 simple steps.
But if you want to do it really quickly, and without any problems, you should go ahead to the last part called “How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X with CleanMyMac 2″ and start from there. If not, please continue reading.
So, here is a simple instruction on how we can uninstall Safari manually.
You just need to follow these 4 steps:
- Go to your Applications folder.
- Click and drag on the Safari icon.
- Drag the Safari icon to your Trash.
- Control+click the Trash icon and click on “Empty Trash” option.
We are done. As we were saying earlier, this way is not as good as it seems for Safari uninstall. Now we have uninstalled Safari from Mac OS X, but all the plugins and other big data files are still there in our Mac OS. Because this way doesn’t remove all system files or plugins that stay on Mac and take up a lot of free space.
I advise you to get CleanMyMac 2. This is the best program that I have ever been used. Because it’s easy to use, it has good design, and it uninstall all applications you need in the best way. It removes all systems files that are connected with Safari. This typically helps your Mac run faster and give you more free space to use it for more important things.
How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X with CleanMyMac 2
If you haven’t downloaded CleanMyMac 2 yet, go (download it right now)! Now you have CleanMyMac 2, uninstalling Safari from your Mac will be really fast and easy, just follow these 4 steps:
1. Click on CleanMyMac 2 icon on your Desktop to open it.
2. Go to your Application folder, click-and-drag Safari icon to the CleanMyMac 2 window on “Uninstaller” tab from the left menu.
3. Set checked on Safari, than you will see all things which can be uninstalled with it.
4. Click “Uninstall” button at the bottom.
Note: Removing such items may affect the functionality of your system or applications related to them.
We did it! This awesome app removed all Safari files from your Macbook. ALL OF THEM, completely! CleanMyMac 2 can also delete all old files on your Mac, large system files, different system garbage, logs, cache and other things thats takes up a tons of space. Now you know How to Uninstall Safari on Mac OS X or any other apps.
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