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Remove the Flitplay helper

Uninstalling the browser extension does not remove the native helper — the small flitplay-host program the installer put on your machine. The browser gives an extension no way to clean up once it is gone, so the last step is yours. It only takes a moment: pick your operating system below. Files you saved with Flitplay are yours and are never touched.

Still have the extension installed? The easiest path is the Remove helper button on its settings page — it does all of this for you, in one click, before you uninstall the extension.

macOS

Paste this in Terminal to remove everything at once:

"$HOME/Library/Application Support/flitplay/bin/flitplay-host" uninstall --purge

Or by hand:

  1. Delete the helper folder: ~/Library/Application Support/flitplay (contains the flitplay-host binary and its settings).
  2. Delete com.flitplay.host.json from the NativeMessagingHosts folder of each browser under ~/Library/Application Support (Google/Chrome, Chromium, BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla).
  3. Delete the download cache: ~/Library/Caches/flitplay.

Windows

  1. Open Settings > Apps > Installed apps (older Windows: "Add or remove programs"), find flitplay-host, and choose Uninstall — this stops the helper and removes everything it installed.
  2. If the app entry is gone, delete these folders by hand: %LOCALAPPDATA%\flitplay (the flitplay-host.exe binary) and %APPDATA%\flitplay (settings).
  3. Then remove the registry values named com.flitplay.host under HKCU\Software for each browser (Google\Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft\Edge, BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser, and Mozilla — all under ...\NativeMessagingHosts).

Linux

Paste this in a terminal to remove everything at once:

~/.local/share/flitplay/bin/flitplay-host uninstall --purge

Or by hand:

  1. Delete the helper folder: ~/.local/share/flitplay (contains the flitplay-host binary).
  2. Delete the settings folder: ~/.config/flitplay.
  3. Delete com.flitplay.host.json from each browser’s NativeMessagingHosts folder under ~/.config (google-chrome, chromium, BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser, microsoft-edge) and from ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts.
  4. Delete the download cache: ~/.cache/flitplay.

What these steps remove

The helper program itself, its native-messaging registrations (how the browser found it), its settings, its logs, and the cached copy of ffmpeg it may have downloaded for transcoding. Nothing else — videos you explicitly saved live wherever you chose to save them and are not part of any cleanup.

Changed your mind? Reinstalling the helper takes under a minute.