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WARNING: Widgets can hijack your dashboard
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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 109939" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>To remove a widget outside of Dashboard, delete it from ~/Library/Widgets (and from your Trash, afterwards) and relaunch the Dock. Dashboard seems to be part of the Dock, and after relaunching it, the deleted Widget is not anymore in the Widget-bar.</p><p>To relaunch the Dock, you can use for example TinkerTool, or simply log out and log in again. There's definitely no need to restart the Mac. Just make sure that, when you delete the Widget from ~/Library/Widgets you also empty the trash, or at least delete the Widget from the trash to permanently remove it.</p><p></p><p>This is, of course, not the way it should be. Apple should have given an option to remove a Widget in a more easy way(as we are used to from them).</p><p>And the fact that Safari, by default, opens every downloaded file is not really secure either...reminds me of Internet Explorer...</p><p>Since version 2.0, Safari does however give you a warning when a downloaded file is executable...except for Widgets, which, in my opinion, is a serious flaw.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Another option to relaunch the Dock is going to the Terminal and typing <strong>killall Dock</strong> (case sensitive).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 109939, member: 5184"] To remove a widget outside of Dashboard, delete it from ~/Library/Widgets (and from your Trash, afterwards) and relaunch the Dock. Dashboard seems to be part of the Dock, and after relaunching it, the deleted Widget is not anymore in the Widget-bar. To relaunch the Dock, you can use for example TinkerTool, or simply log out and log in again. There's definitely no need to restart the Mac. Just make sure that, when you delete the Widget from ~/Library/Widgets you also empty the trash, or at least delete the Widget from the trash to permanently remove it. This is, of course, not the way it should be. Apple should have given an option to remove a Widget in a more easy way(as we are used to from them). And the fact that Safari, by default, opens every downloaded file is not really secure either...reminds me of Internet Explorer... Since version 2.0, Safari does however give you a warning when a downloaded file is executable...except for Widgets, which, in my opinion, is a serious flaw. EDIT: Another option to relaunch the Dock is going to the Terminal and typing [B]killall Dock[/B] (case sensitive). [/QUOTE]
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