# How to remove Canonical referral in Firefox?
**URL:** https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190
**Category:** Netrunner 13.12
**Created:** [May 4, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190 "2014-05-04T12:00:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Huwie](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/Huwie)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2014, 12:00pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190/1 "2014-05-04T12:00:40Z")
As title; I want to remove the Canonical referral when I search DuckDuckGo. I can’t find anything relevant in about:config when I search ‘refer’ or ‘Canonical’. Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@leszek](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/leszek)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190/2 "2014-05-04T12:14:27Z")
The question which is important here is why do you want to remove the canonical referral ?
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### Author:  [@Huwie](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/Huwie)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190/3 "2014-05-04T15:59:15Z")
> [@leszek](#):
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> The question which is important here is why do you want to remove the canonical referral ?
Why is that important?
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### Author:  [@leszek](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/leszek)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190/4 "2014-05-04T16:02:07Z")
The referral helps (in parts at least) to keep the ubuntu server infastructure to keep alive. So you need a very good reason to deactivate that.
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### Author:  [@Huwie](https://support.blue-systems.com/u/Huwie)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://support.blue-systems.com/t/how-to-remove-canonical-referral-in-firefox/2190/5 "2014-05-04T16:04:54Z")
> [@leszek](#):
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> The referral helps (in parts at least) to keep the ubuntu server infastructure to keep alive. So you need a very good reason to deactivate that.
I honestly don’t mean to sound facetious but I would’ve thought the fact that I want to do it is reason enough; this isn’t Windows, this is Linux.
However I understand if you’re unwilling to assist. I’ll find my own solution.