How to remove BrowserSync

What is BrowserSync

BrowserSync is an unwanted extension that gets installed in your browser without consent. Its capabilities are ostensibly meant to ease up the shopping experience by analyzing the market and showing most juicy deals. Unfortunately, BrowserSync promotes sponsored products to earn additional money from generated clicks. Most legitimate extensions access browser settings to enable their features. Transparent policies and strong regulations by Google guarantee that your data will not be used badly. BrowserSync, however, hijacks your settings in order to generate redirects to suspicious websites, show shady ads and banners, or even collect personal information to share with cybercriminals. These changes may downgrade the performance of your browser and slow it down significantly. Thus, we recommend you to uninstall BrowserSync and learn more about protection tips in the article below.

How BrowserSync infected your computer

Extensions like BrowserSync are often promoted by potentially unwanted programs that could appear on your system due to downloading freeware. Repacks and other installation kits that are advertised on third-parties resources can be bundled with additional offers hidden under “Advanced/Custom” sections. Because most users fail to uncheck these offers, they get infected with unwanted programs that set the scene for different add-ons designed to change browser settings. It is also necessary to mention that it is impossible to delete or disable BrowserSync in the browser because it will reinstall itself until there is an unwanted program in your system. Therefore, you will need to get rid of a program first, and then the extension respectively. Follow the instructions below to do this.

1. Download BrowserSync Removal Tool
2. Stop BrowserSync notifications in browsers
3. Remove/Uninstall BrowserSync from Control Panel and Applications
4. Remove BrowserSync extensions from browsers
5. Reset browser search and homepage settings
6. Block BrowserSync search redirects
7. How to protect from threats like BrowserSync

Remove BrowserSync manually for free

Here is the manual step-by-step tutorial for full BrowserSync removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of the BrowserSync installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove BrowserSync from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing BrowserSync you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “BrowserSync”. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Mac.

Remove BrowserSync from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. BrowserSync might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag BrowserSync from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove BrowserSync from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove BrowserSync from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove BrowserSync from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove BrowserSync from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall BrowserSync from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall BrowserSync

In some cases, BrowserSync won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall BrowserSync. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the BrowserSync folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall BrowserSync in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove BrowserSync or other recently installed suspicious program

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall BrowserSync using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of BrowserSync. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag BrowserSync from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with BrowserSync.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling BrowserSync from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extension and it may still be active in Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove BrowserSync related extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find BrowserSync extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find BrowserSync extension.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose BrowserSync extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove BrowserSync from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable BrowserSync, please, do the following:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable or BrowserSync extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, BrowserSync does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

1. Start Opera browser.
2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
3. Find BrowserSync extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

How to block ads and pop-ups from BrowserSync

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AdGuard browser assistant

BrowserSync push notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or add-on installed in browsers. However, sometimes it can appear on a clean computer when visiting a malicious website, using an advertising script. Also, apps that generate “BrowserSync” ads and banners are themselves installed from pop-ups. To protect your PC and browsers from phishing websites, pop-up ads, banners, malicious scripts it is recommended to use AdGuard. Download free trial here:

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like BrowserSync, may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and anti-malware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats, like BrowserSync.