Can't unpin a site
Hi, I opened Firefox this morning and found Amazon pinned among my top sites. Weirdly enough, I can't unpin it or dismiss it - it just stays there whatever I do (in contrast to other pinned sites). It's not a huge problem, but I have some ethical issues with Amazon, so the last thing I want to see every time I open my browser is their logo. I also wonder how did it get there in the first place (I sometimes do browse the site to get an idea what are the prices of various products, but not too often and I'm not sure if there is a way to pin it by accident at all). Does anyone have the same problem?
Chosen solution
Hi, I'm not sure if it was a search engine site (it didn't have the blue search icon on it at least), nonetheless adding Amazon as a search engine site (and then removing it) somehow solved the issue as it replaced the pinned site!
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Hi, that sounds like a search engine site. Please see:
- Specifically: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120325-add-remove-search-engine-icons-new-tab-top-sites-firefox.html
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Hi, I'm not sure if it was a search engine site (it didn't have the blue search icon on it at least), nonetheless adding Amazon as a search engine site (and then removing it) somehow solved the issue as it replaced the pinned site!
Hey! I had the exact same issue. Your solution didn't work for me, but here's what did. Click the three dots on the upper right hand corner of the icon > Edit > Change the url and name to something other than Amazon (I used an article about Amazon's disgusting attempts to quash unions for irony) > Save. Reload the page then click the three dots > Unpin. It should be gone! Cheers
Modified by sam.eliot.bernstein
The above solutions don't work for me. I have two rows of frequent sites and all that happened is it moved Amazon from the first site listed to one on the second row. I still can't delete it from history or unpin it
Modified by lbiggs62
For all still having the problem. For me worked:
1) open "about:config" 2) search "amazon" 2.a) edit "browser.newtabpage.searchTileOverride.amazon.attributionURL" and delete content of string 2.b) edit "browser.newtabpage.searchTileOverride.amazon.url" and delete content of string 2.c) edit "app.normandy.startupExperimentPrefs.browser.newtabpage.searchTileOverride.amazon.attributionURL" and delete content of string 2.d) edit "app.normandy.startupExperimentPrefs.browser.newtabpage.searchTileOverride.amazon.url" and delete content of string 3) search "pinned" 3.a) edit "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts.havePinned" and delete content of string 3.b) edit "browser.newtabpage.pinned" and delete content of string
3) attention: could unpin other of your pinned sites, if you have any.
Video to what happens if you delete them step by step: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4r9lyyODos
Thanks - Michael
lbiggs62 said
The above solutions don't work for me. I have two rows of frequent sites and all that happened is it moved Amazon from the first site listed to one on the second row. I still can't delete it from history or unpin it
I hope you will find my post and solve the problem with my informations.
Maybe you need to delete the amazon-site from topsites afterwards because it seems that it pops up again on first place if you don't delete it.