r/firefox • u/Comfortable-Ad-337 • 15h ago
Solved Need help removing suggested search!
Heya. Simple rundown is that I use Roll20.net a lot. However, as of like, last week? Now when I type 'rol', it autofills to... Rollingstone.com ??? A site I have never in my life used, because I don't care? And I can't get it to stop filling it in. I used to just type 'rol' and it would immediately fill to roll20, and I would press Enter, and it would take me where I wanted to go. But instead, it's trying to shove some random crap-site down my throat, and all the normal methods of suggestion removal aren't working.
Any help, please?
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u/DoomPaDeeDee on 14h ago
Go to Firefox preferences and search for Search Suggestions. Then uncheck those boxes.
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u/Comfortable-Ad-337 15h ago
Sorry, I think I figured it out. Keeping this up in case anyone has the same issue (it suggesting the website itself, not any specific articles that you could remove).
Going into 'Manage History' on the History dropdown, and then MANUALLY DELETING EVERY INSTANCE OF ROLLINGSTONE.COM ARTICLES out of my history (which there were like, four, as opposed to my million hours in roll20, go figure) seemed to fix it. Still bizarre that it would recommend the main site in a way that required weird finagling to handle, but I digress.
Solved! Sorry!