Yesterday an extra Google Search Box was placed in the body of one of my home pages. Cannot get rid of it.
I use Firefox as my reading browser and sometime ago stumbled upon a method to make the most visited sites readily available by having photos of their sites as a supplemental home page. Yesterday a large Google Search box was added at the top of that page that I neither want nor need. I search from the address bar. Always have. I've done everything recommended to reset the home page and nothing seems to work. How do I get rid of that space hogging search field (it reduced the size of the 9 site photos that formerly occupied that page;I just click on the page to open a site). I captured a screen shot, but it seems to be awfully large. Can I get rid of it? It just showed up yesterday.
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In order to uninstall a possibly unwanted extension, please do the following:
- Click the menu button
and choose Add-ons.
- Once the Add-on Manager has opened in a new tab, click the Extensions button on the left side of the window.
- You should now see a list of your installed extensions on the right side together with buttons on the right side of each extension.
- To remove an extension from Firefox, simply click the Remove button. You should see a message that informs you about the successful removal of the add-on.
- Note that some add-ons require a Firefox restart to be removed completely. To perform a Firefox restart after the add-on removal, click the Restart now link in the message.
You can find further information about uninstalling extensions in the following articles:
Thanks for the response. I will try this and get back later this evening.
If the page that changed was the standard "new tab" page (the page that opens when you type about:newtab in the address bar and press Enter), then you would need to use a custom style rule to hide the search box so that your thumbnails of frequently/recently visited pages can use the whole space.
This thread has more information on how to do that: i have to remove the search engin option from the place where i am pining my favorite site links.