osx - How to permanently remove Growl from my Mac

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2013-07
  • TheLearner

    Growl just installed itself on my machine without me requesting it and it has now infected everything - every program I open how do I get rid of it?

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  • Rich Homolka

    A simple search finds http://growl.info/documentation/growl-package-removal.php from the growl official site. It also has this page http://growl.info/thirdpartyinstallations.php which may explain how it got on your machine. You should read it, or you may find it on your machine again.

    Growl is just a notifier, you can turn it off in Preferences if you don't like it, or configure only specific apps to use it.

  • Madison S

    Go to the Growl Website download it, then run the uninstaller contained in the disk image.

  • bronzebeard

    i have found http://freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/ to be particularly useful for all purposes.



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  • David Pearce

    Whenever I open Cyberduck in my school (which has 60+ iMacs) I immediately get flooded with Growl alerts telling me that Cyberduck has found Bonjour network shares, filling up my entire screen, and then some.

    How can i prevent this from happening? I do not want to stop Cyberduck from discovering Bonjour shares.


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  • neu242

    Go to System Preferences » Growl » Applications. Select Cyberduck and "Configure". Highlight "Bonjour" and deselect the "Enabled" checkbox.

  • David Pearce

    If you alt-click the close button on the growl notification, it will close all the notifications visible.