Save Your Worries to Remove Ominent Toolbar

Ominent Toolbar is a browser extension developed and promoted by WeDownload Ltd, supporting several popular browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, for which I will separately give different removal guides.

This add-on is built to promote advertisements, services and should not be bundled during some freeware’s installation process to trick users into getting it without a decent notice. So users shall all pay enough attention when visiting a website, downloading or installing a program.

It will not only intervene the victims’ web surfing experience, but also compromise their privacy. It’s extremely not safe when you have to login your profiles everyday using the browser. The add-on may access your accounts and for example, get your friends list on Facebook. In additional, it’s annoying to keep receiving promotion messages of other unknown softwares that you never plan to use.

If you are still confused about how to completely get rid of Ominent Toolbar, take some time on the contents below, and your mind will be enlightened.

Manual Guides to Remove Ominent Toolbar

1.Remove the plug-in from Control Panel

The plug-in may include several programs, such as Ominent Toolbar Chrome Extension, Ominent Toolbar Firefox Toolbar, Ominent Toolbar Internet Explorer Toolbar, etc. They are all those you need to delete from your computer. Steps are as follows:

(1)How to access Control Panel?

Windows 8 user: two choices: (i) hover your mouse pointer at the lower right corner → Select “Search” → type in “control panel” → press “Enter” key → click on “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

(ii) Double-click “This PC” on desktop → click on “Open Control Panel” → click “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

Windows 7 user: click the “Start” button at the lower left corner → select “Control Panel” → click on “Uninstall a program” under the Programs section;

(2)You can see all the programs being listed in “Add/uninstall a program” on the pop-up window.

Scroll through the list, if you find Ominent Toolbar, or any of those above-mentioned programs in the list, it is definitely the target you need to hit;

Double-click it to activate its uninstaller program. After clicking a few “Next”s and a “finish” button, the plug-in shall be gone.

2.Uninstall Ominent Toolbar from web browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer).

In some cases, after you visit a website, the plug-in can be automatically added to your web browser without taking an installation package, which means you may not notice until the next time you open the browser.

If so, you will not able to track it in the program list of Control Panel. To correctly remove it, you need to manually restore your web browser’s setting (undo the unwanted changes).

I am hereby respectively giving specific methods for removing Ominent Toolbar from three widely-used browsers.

Remove Ominent Toolbar from Mozilla Firefox

Method One:
(1)Open Firefox → click on (Firefox menu button) at the upper right corner.

(2)click (Help) → select “Troubleshooting Information.”

(3) Click on “Reset Firefox…” button showed on the right.

(4) Firefox will close and be reset by itself, after which a window will show up, listing the details imported. You may click on the “Finish” button, and Firefox will open.

Method Two:
(1)Open Firefox → click (Firefox menu button) at the upper right corner → choose “Add-ons”;

(2)Click the “Extensions” tab → click on “Remove” button appeared in the item of Ominent Toolbar;

(3)To reset the default search engine and homepage of Firefox from the toolbar’s website to its own default, download the SearchReset on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchreset/ → install it, and use it to restore the default homepage.

Remove Ominent Toolbar from Google Chrome

(1)Open Google Chrome → click on (menu) at the upper right corner → select “Tools” → click “Extensions.”

(2)The “Extension” tab will be presented like a web page, click on icon to remove the plug-in.

(3)To set the default search engine of Google Chrome from http://search.ominent.com/ to Google, click on (menu) at the upper right corner → select “Settings” → click “Manage search engines” in Search section → select Google, and click on “Make Default” button appeared → find Ominent Toolbar in the list, and click on “X” button at the right side.

(4)To change the homepage of Google Chrome from the one it replaced to its own default, click on (menu) → select “Settings” → click “Open the New Tab Page” under the “On Startup” section.

Last but not least: Remove Ominent Toolbar from Internet Explorer

(1)Open Internet Explorer → click on the gear icon at the upper right corner → select “Internet options.”

(2)Click the “Advanced” tab in the box appeared → click on the “Reset” button.

(3)Select the “Delete personal settings” in the Reset Internet Explorer Setting box → click “Reset.”

(4)Wait until the resetting is finished → click “Close” in the confirmation dialogue box → click “OK.”

(5)Re-open Internet Explorer.

Easier Approach to Remove Ominent Toolbar

• Download, install, and start Max Uninstaller.
• Choose Ominent Toolbar icon, and click “Run Analysis” in Step 1.
• Select the item presented, click “Complete Uninstall”, and click “Next” on the pop-up window to proceed the uninstall.
• Remove it from relevant web browser with Max Uninstaller’s Plug-in Cleaner.

• When it tells you “Please wait while it initializes the uninstall process.”, click “Scan Leftovers”.

• Select the item displayed in Step 3, and click “Delete Leftovers”.

If you have followed all steps in correct order, the stubborn plug-in should have been successfully deleted. Isn’t this a much easier way to achieve your aim? This third-party tool is developed particularly for users who want maximized convenience and those who always struggle to take good care of their computers.

Maybe you don’t belong to either kind of the above people, you are just seeking for a professional tool to realize long-term maintenance in the future, then you won’t regret to try out this tool.

To remove Ominent Toolbar, don’t get upset when you find your antivirus software failed to do the job, because technically the plug-in is not a virus, despite the truth it does give malicious traits during your normal use. Generally we call this kind of software “potentially unwanted program”, which Max Uninstaller is capable of dealing with.