What is Chromium?

Chromium is the common name of the engine that many browsers are based on, including the popular Google Chrome. As an open-source project, it can be modified in any way and by anyone. Knowing this, hackers release their own versions of the browser, which are often used for advertising purposes. So, if you have never installed Сhromium, but it appeared on its own, then you are dealing with an unwanted version of the program. To confuse the user, Chromium has shortcuts and interface similar to Google Chrome. The browser itself cannot be considered as malware, though we would classify it as a potentially unwanted program. Chromium possesses such an unpleasant trait as generating advertisements on almost every page you open. Those pop-ups, banners, in-text links, etc. are shown due to gaining revenue from every person clicking them. Chromium also uses tracking cookies and collects valuable information about its users. All this shouldn’t be ignored, and it’s better to remove Chromium in order to prevent the harm it may cause to your privacy or system.

The list of unwanted Chromium variants:

How Chromium gets on your Mac/PC?

Though it has an official website, the browser cannot be downloaded from there. Chromium can be seen promoted by ads placed on different download sources. Nevertheless, Chromium is seldom installed independently. Understanding that not many people are ready to replace their reputed browser with something new and not so popular, Chromium developers have to use a stealth method of bundling their program with others. This means, that the browser will be installed by default unless you deselect it manually.

According to our users, Chromium started to hack Mac/MacBook since September 2018. It has the same features as previous versions. Use our guide for removing Chromium from Mac.

How to remove Chromium from your device?

The easiest and most modern way of removing pop-ups, trojans, ransomware, or other viruses is to use automatic removal tools. See our Anti-malware tools below for further instructions.

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Also, you can try to remove Chromium manually. For uninstalling Chromium virus remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and registry keys.

Step 1: Remove Chromium from System

Chromium may not have the app associated with it in Applications. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones.

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate Chromium and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Mac OSX:

  1. Open Finder
  2. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
  3. If you see Uninstall Chromium or Chromium Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
  4. Drag unwanted application Chromium from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX

appcleanerTo remove leftover items of unwanted application on Mac we recommend you to use AppCleaner. Just drag application you want to remove to AppCleaner window and it will search for residual data on your hard drive. This will save space of your memory and will help to remove stubborn applications from Mac systems.

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Chromium.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Chromium and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Chromium, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Chromium from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Chromium from browsers

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Chromium.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Chromium.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Safari:

  1. Open Safari
  2. Click Safari menu.
  3. Choose Extensions.
  4. Find Chromium or other suspicious extensions.
  5. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Chromium.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Chromium:

Remove following registry entries:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Value: GoogleChromeAutoLaunch_29547C284DF612A3A7B0DAC3918C9547
Data: C:\users\{username}\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application\chrome.exe

Remove following files:

Chromium.dll
chrome.exe
chromium.exe

Remove following folders

C:\users\{username}\AppData\Local\Chromium\
C:\Program Files\Chromium\

Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov

35 Comments

  1. I have tried everything on the list, and it still appears on my app list. I have a laptop running windows 10. I even copied and pasted Data: deleted everything under that folder and when I go to my app list it still appears. What can I do? I don’t even remember downloading this.

  4. I had this problem and in all honesty i’m not exactly a computer wizard, but I managed to delete it without any major faffing around. To begin with i uninstalled chromium from the programs in control panel (as you would when uninstalling anything else) but even after that chromium would start-up whenever i started my pc back up. I tried everything that people had posted, but nothing. So, i finally got rid of it by starting my pc up again, going on task manager right click chromium on the processes, open file location and boom there it was. I deleted it and there was another file below it that said chromium blahblah.exe or something (which was also installed on the same date as chromium. I deleted that too. Turn my pc back off and on again, and it was gone. Simple as that.

  6. Simple way is to install first IObit Uninstaller and then right click the chromium then click Powerful unistall. Unistall and shred files, then restart.done

  10. Was it already removed if my anti-virus detected it and removed it and then i uninstalled it after the pop-up notif from my anti-virus?

  11. If you have Windows Ten and you press the windows button it will bring up a menu, then search task manager and open it up, then go to one of the folders, and you can disable chromium

  12. When I try to uninstall it a window pops up that says I have to make sure all Chrome windows are close even though I don’t have any window open

  13. I was able to get rid of chromium completely, but I still have an annoying search bar above all my windows that i CANNOT remove no matter what i try. if you know what this is about please tell me.

    • That’s the virus. It duplicates itself and hides the files, meaning it just reinstalls itself if you miss *any* of the hidden files. You probably missed a hidden file, so your computer would still be infected by it. The actual search bar is the virus hijacking chrome.

  15. Hey everybody, I have found the solution. So i download IFunbox for my pc and it also downloaded Chromium, i thought it was google chrome and proceeded to download it. So then a search engine popped up on the top of my screen, and Chromium was on my taskbar. I read posts on how to delete and i followed them, i went to control panel and uninstalled Chromium.The search engine remained but i deleted every Chromium there was. And then i went to Task Manager and deleted the Chromiums there. But still no luck with the search engine. I went back in Control Panel and then uninstall program. I looked at the dates for every application and deleted the ones that were todays. I deleted IFunBox but that didnt resolve the problem, i scrolled a little bit further and saw WebDiscoverBrowser and deleted. I exited out because i couldnt find any other Applications and to my luck the search engine was gone. The Solution :
    1. Go into Control Panel
    2. Find Uninstall Program
    3. Delete WebDiscoverBrowser and Chromium

  16. Hi Jack

    This last step helped me. This solution should include all the other steps I believe such as Chromuim uninstall deleting it from AppData-> local folder, checking processes. Your final solution worked for me uninstalling WebDiscoverBrowser removed it immediatly I didnt eve have to restart my computer.

    Thanks a Lot,
    PDH

  20. im on windows 10, everytime i tried to uninstall it, it keeps coming back. like it just stays there and it cant be removed. please help this stupid thing is really annoying

  22. I can’t get rid of the very annoying Chromium. I can’t Uninstall it since it does NOT appear anywhere under Programs & Features. PLEASE HELP

  24. Yay it work thank you! The only problem was, I was unable to delete the chromium files since it kept saying the app still running. So I open back my task manager and look under the Background processes, and boom, there’s like 3 running chromium, I ended task for those 3, and try deleting the main files again, and thank God it works! Thanks again for your help!

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