How do I *actually* remove specific sites from autocomplete in the address bar?
Whenever I type in "photo", Firefox has always autocompleted to photos.google.com. Today it's started autocompleting to photoquotes.com instead; a site I never use, and I don't know why Firefox is suggesting it.
I have followed SEVERAL guides for how to remove sites from autocomplete suggestions, and all of them give wrong advice.
I have gone to History/Manage History and 'Forget about this site'. That does not remove the site from autocomplete.
I have tried 'Hover over the entry to select it, then click delete'. This does not work. It only deletes the last character entered in the address bar.
I have tried 'Select the three-dot menu beside the suggestion and select Remove from history'. That is Not Possible with the top result in autocomplete, which appears above Firefox suggestions.
Could someone please tell me the CORRECT answer on how to remove specific websites from being suggested in autocomplete!?
Gekose oplossing
UPDATE: SOLVED IT!!!
I tried deleting photoquotes.com from every single place I could think of in Firefox that could store it. And no matter what, the address bar still remembered the site. So, where was it remembering from!? Then I realized, the site had a little blue star on its icon.
I had bookmarked a page I had come across that was deep _into_ the site, and now the 'parent' website could not be removed from history. I removed the bookmark, and now the page is gone.
So this has gone from a frustrating puzzle to, the guides ought to be updated to reflect that, if you can't remove a site from history/suggestions, check to make sure nothing related to it is not bookmarked.
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Gekose oplossing
UPDATE: SOLVED IT!!!
I tried deleting photoquotes.com from every single place I could think of in Firefox that could store it. And no matter what, the address bar still remembered the site. So, where was it remembering from!? Then I realized, the site had a little blue star on its icon.
I had bookmarked a page I had come across that was deep _into_ the site, and now the 'parent' website could not be removed from history. I removed the bookmark, and now the page is gone.
So this has gone from a frustrating puzzle to, the guides ought to be updated to reflect that, if you can't remove a site from history/suggestions, check to make sure nothing related to it is not bookmarked.
Hi Alex,
Thank you so much for coming back to this thread to share your solution! By doing this, you're helping others who might run into the same problem. As a moderator, I just marked your response as the solution to the thread. Thanks once again!
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