How to remove Amazon and eBay sponsored links in Firefox 86 search bar

mrochester · 25 Feb 2021 at 20:05

Hello.

Does anyone know where the setting is to remove these?

I previously managed to get rid of them but they have come back in a later version of FF and I can't figure out how to get rid again.

Many thanks.

M.

TheVoice · 26 Feb 2021 at 12:29

Search the settings for 'sponsored'.

Rainmaker · 26 Feb 2021 at 15:32

Manually, you can go to Preferences > Search > Search Shortcuts, and just remove the ones you don't want. You can also add these if you have a user.js (you may need to delete prefs.js and/or reset about:config to defaults for them to work):

Code:

user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts.havePinned", "");
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsoredTopSites", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showSponsored", false);
user_pref("browser.search.update", false);

Rainmaker · 26 Feb 2021 at 15:46

Interestingly, I can't edit my post (and had to disable uBO to post it in the first instance) because the thread title contains sponsored-links.

I wanted to add that future Firefox updates will usually re-add the removed sponsored search sites (Amazon, Ebay, Google etc) and the prefs.js entry for browser.search.update prevents this.