Vuze toolbar... how on earth can i get rid of it?!
Foolishly clicked on a link to vuze & downloaded & installed it on my macbook. Decided against it incase I picked up viruses so uninstalled it, deleted & emptied the trash with the installer. Now stuck with a stupid vuze toolbar! how can i get rid of it?
It looked like »$HOME/Library/Application Support/Conduit«
did contain the Vuze toolbar and didn't contain anything else. So, I just removed everything and restarted Safari.
It came back.
Tried again. Logged out. Rebooted. It came back.
Finally, I removed everything under .../Conduit and did a chmod 0000 .../Conduit and it didn't come back.
Unfortunately this is clearly not a solution. Something is still telling Safari to go out and try to load the toolbar. (I have many other users and will have to do this for each of them. Sigh.)
This leaves me with two questions and an observation.
1. What is the general solution?
2. The toolbar messed up my ability to use CMD-click to open a link in a new window. Now that the toolbar is gone the status bar at the bottom
says it will open in a new window, but it still doesn't. How do I get that back?
Observation:
I thought maybe hacking Vuze might be necessary, so I went looking for the string "Safari" under /Applications/Vuze.app and found it in /Applications/Vuze.app/Contents/Resources/Java/swt.jar.
(Of course, I made a back-up before I did anything interesting.) I unjarred it, removed the class files with "Safari" in their names and jarred it all back up and -- Poof! -- Vuze still worked! But it didn't have the neat navegation panel and it looked like a Java app instead of a Mac app.
personally i am
REALLY ****** off about this. i'd like to subscribe to this thread so that when someone figures out how to get rid of this P.O.S. i'll hear about it.
off to write these ******** a really nasty letter.
bvb
HERE IS THE FIX:
in case it hasn't already been posted... Delete the CTLoader folder in ~/Library/InputManagers/
this kills the toolbar. kind of a bummer for me cause i don't run Leopard - so basically i'm stuck with this P.O.S bloatware if i want a torrent client that allows any real degree of control.
i almost just want to use Parallels and uTorrent for chrissake...
cheers,
b
I had the same issue and have followed everyones instructions and managed to get rid of the toolbar. Does anyone have a suggestion on what to use other than Vuze?
