diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/Account.tsx b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/Account.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb37634a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/Account.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+// Copyright 2019 @polkadot/extension-ui authors & contributors
+// This software may be modified and distributed under the terms
+// of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
+
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { ActionBar, Address } from '../../components';
+import { forgetAccount } from '../../messaging';
+
+type Props = {
+  address: string,
+  name?: string,
+  onAction: () => void
+};
+
+export default function Account ({ address, name, onAction }: Props) {
+  const _onForget = (): void => {
+    forgetAccount(address)
+      .then(onAction)
+      .catch(console.error);
+  };
+
+  return (
+    <Address
+      address={address}
+      name={name}
+    >
+      <ActionBar>
+        <a onClick={_onForget}>Forget</a>
+      </ActionBar>
+    </Address>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts.tsx b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/index.tsx
similarity index 79%
rename from packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts.tsx
rename to packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/index.tsx
index 3b3142f8..9efb277b 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts.tsx
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Accounts/index.tsx
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ import { KeyringJson } from '@polkadot/ui-keyring/types';
 
 import React from 'react';
 
-import { Address, Button, Header, Tip } from '../components';
+import { Button, Header, Tip } from '../../components';
+import Account from './Account';
 
 type Props = {
-  accounts: Array<KeyringJson>
+  accounts: Array<KeyringJson>,
+  onAction: () => void
 };
 
-export default function Accounts ({ accounts }: Props) {
+export default function Accounts ({ accounts, onAction }: Props) {
   return (
     <div>
       <Header label='accounts' />
@@ -20,10 +22,11 @@ export default function Accounts ({ accounts }: Props) {
         (accounts.length === 0)
           ? <Tip header='add accounts' type='warn'>You currently don't have any accounts. Either create a new account or if you have an existing account you wish to use, import it with the seed phrase</Tip>
           : accounts.map(({ address, meta: { name } }) => (
-            <Address
+            <Account
               address={address}
               key={address}
               name={name}
+              onAction={onAction}
             />
           ))
       }
diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Create.tsx b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Create.tsx
index 2db92240..6b1968df 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Create.tsx
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Create.tsx
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ import { Address, Button, Header, Loading, TextArea } from '../components';
 import { createAccount, createSeed } from '../messaging';
 import { Back, Name, Password } from '../partials';
 
-type Props = {};
+type Props = {
+  onAction: () => void
+};
 
-export default function Create (props: Props) {
+export default function Create ({ onAction }: Props) {
   const [account, setAccount] = useState(null as null | { address: string, seed: string });
   const [name, setName] = useState(null as string | null);
   const [password, setPassword] = useState(null as string | null);
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ export default function Create (props: Props) {
     if (name && password && account) {
       createAccount(name, password, account.seed)
         .then(() => {
+          onAction();
           window.location.hash = '/';
         })
         .catch(console.error);
diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Import.tsx b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Import.tsx
index 307307a4..148d150c 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Import.tsx
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/Import.tsx
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@ import { Address, Button, Header, TextArea } from '../components';
 import { createAccount, validateSeed } from '../messaging';
 import { Back, Name, Password } from '../partials';
 
-type Props = {};
+type Props = {
+  onAction: () => void
+};
 
-export default function Import (props: Props) {
+export default function Import ({ onAction }: Props) {
   const [account, setAccount] = useState(null as null | { address: string, seed: string });
   const [name, setName] = useState(null as string | null);
   const [password, setPassword] = useState(null as string | null);
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ export default function Import (props: Props) {
     if (name && password && account) {
       createAccount(name, password, account.seed)
         .then(() => {
+          onAction();
           window.location.hash = '/';
         })
         .catch(console.error);
diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/index.tsx b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/index.tsx
index 76be3d24..3a61589f 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/Popup/index.tsx
@@ -21,13 +21,8 @@ export default function Popup (props: Props) {
   const [accounts, setAccounts] = useState(null as null | Array<KeyringJson>);
   const [requests, setRequests] = useState(null as null | Array<[number, MessageExtrinsicSign, string]>);
 
-  const _onAction = (): void => {
-    getRequests()
-      .then(setRequests)
-      .catch(console.error);
-  };
-
-  useEffect((): void => {
+  const onAction = (): void => {
+    // loads all accounts & requests (this is passed through to children to trigger changes)
     Promise
       .all([getAccounts(), getRequests()])
       .then(([accounts, requests]) => {
@@ -35,18 +30,28 @@ export default function Popup (props: Props) {
         setRequests(requests);
       })
       .catch(console.error);
+  };
+
+  useEffect((): void => {
+    // with an empty state, load the accounts & requests
+    onAction();
   }, []);
 
   return (
     <Loading>{accounts && requests && (
       <Switch>
-        <Route path='/account/create' component={Create} />
-        <Route path='/account/import' component={Import} />
-        <Route exact path='/' component={() => {
-          return requests.length
-            ? <Signing accounts={accounts} onAction={_onAction} requests={requests} />
-            : <Accounts accounts={accounts} />;
-        }} />
+        <Route path='/account/create' component={() =>
+          <Create onAction={onAction} />
+        } />
+        <Route path='/account/import' component={() =>
+          <Import onAction={onAction} />
+        } />
+        <Route
+          exact path='/' component={() =>
+          requests.length
+            ? <Signing accounts={accounts} onAction={onAction} requests={requests} />
+            : <Accounts accounts={accounts} onAction={onAction} />
+        } />
       </Switch>
     )}</Loading>
   );
diff --git a/packages/extension-ui/src/messaging.ts b/packages/extension-ui/src/messaging.ts
index 73177032..36d8077b 100644
--- a/packages/extension-ui/src/messaging.ts
+++ b/packages/extension-ui/src/messaging.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ function sendMessage (message: MessageTypes, request: any = {}): Promise<any> {
   });
 }
 
+export async function forgetAccount (address: string): Promise<boolean> {
+  return sendMessage('accounts.forget', { address });
+}
+
 export async function getAccounts (): Promise<Array<KeyringJson>> {
   return sendMessage('accounts.list');
 }
diff --git a/packages/extension/src/background/handlers/Extension.ts b/packages/extension/src/background/handlers/Extension.ts
index 9fcae6fb..db2e40a1 100644
--- a/packages/extension/src/background/handlers/Extension.ts
+++ b/packages/extension/src/background/handlers/Extension.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // of the Apache-2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.
 
 import { KeyringJson } from '@polkadot/ui-keyring/types';
-import { MessageTypes, MessageAccountCreate, MessageExtrinsicSign, MessageExtrinsicSignApprove, MessageExtrinsicSignCancel, MessageSeedCreate, MessageSeedCreate$Response, MessageSeedValidate, MessageSeedValidate$Response } from '../types';
+import { MessageTypes, MessageAccountCreate, MessageExtrinsicSign, MessageExtrinsicSignApprove, MessageExtrinsicSignCancel, MessageSeedCreate, MessageSeedCreate$Response, MessageSeedValidate, MessageSeedValidate$Response, MessageAccountForget } from '../types';
 
 import keyring from '@polkadot/ui-keyring';
 import accountsObservable from '@polkadot/ui-keyring/observable/accounts';
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ export default class Extension {
     return true;
   }
 
+  private accountsForget ({ address }: MessageAccountForget): boolean {
+    keyring.forgetAccount(address);
+
+    return true;
+  }
+
   private accountsList (): Array<KeyringJson> {
     return Object
       .values(accountsObservable.subject.getValue())
@@ -104,6 +110,9 @@ export default class Extension {
       case 'accounts.create':
         return this.accountsCreate(request);
 
+      case 'accounts.forget':
+        return this.accountsForget(request);
+
       case 'accounts.list':
         return this.accountsList();
 
diff --git a/packages/extension/src/background/types.ts b/packages/extension/src/background/types.ts
index 6547da54..4c9f3c19 100644
--- a/packages/extension/src/background/types.ts
+++ b/packages/extension/src/background/types.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 import { KeypairType } from '@polkadot/util-crypto/types';
 
-export type MessageTypes = 'accounts.create' | 'accounts.list' | 'extrinsic.sign' | 'seed.create' | 'seed.validate' | 'signing.approve' | 'signing.cancel' | 'signing.requests';
+export type MessageTypes = 'accounts.create' | 'accounts.forget' | 'accounts.list' | 'extrinsic.sign' | 'seed.create' | 'seed.validate' | 'signing.approve' | 'signing.cancel' | 'signing.requests';
 
 export type MessageRequest = {
   id: number,
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ export type MessageAccountCreate = {
   type?: KeypairType
 };
 
+export type MessageAccountForget = {
+  address: string
+};
+
 export type MessageExtrinsicSignApprove = {
   id: number,
   password: string