How do I remove the Donki extension from Chrome?

Chrome reinstalled

The original facebook text that I clicked on:

My OS is Linux Ubuntu 16.04 I think.

I guess I'm looking for the terminal command to remove an extension from Chrome (Chromium seems to have been unaffected)

An arty friend sent me a message of his video, so I clicked on the link to the "video" and then this window opened saying I need to add this "donki extension" to the browser in order to view the video, so I went along with that, then this thing just took over my browser (Chrome) messaging all my other friends on facebook. He'd received the same thing from another friend (another artist)

My friend said that facebook offered to clean it off his computer and remove the extension - "it was all very easy" he said (on Windows 7).

Does anyone have any idea what I should do??

2 Answers

In order to remove or disable any extension in Chrome, you must first visit the settings page for your installed extensions at chrome://extensions which can be accessed by typing the same into your search/URL box.

This is a local settings page within your Chrome browser and you do not need to be connected to a network to access it.

The list of installed extensions on your browser and an enable/disable option for each extension will be displayed.

There will be a bin icon alongside the extension which you wish to uninstall (in this case the Donki extension) which will allow you to completely remove that extension from your browser.

1. Close Chrome and move your Chrome browser configuration out of the way:

   mv ~/.config/google-chrome ~/.config/google-chrome-infected

2. Start Chrome and check if the browser extension is still installed and active. If you can't open the extension list that's a good sign that the extension is still active. If that's the case please edit your question and add the pertaining information for further probing.