I installed the new Pinterest “Pin In” button into my Google Chrome web browser and now every time I move the cursor over an image a stupid little “pin it” button shows up. I hate it. How do I go back to the original non-intrusive Pinterest button?
Oh, I share your pain. I did the exact same upgrade, moving from having my Pin It button on my bookmark bar to having it be an actual extension in Google Chrome, showing up on the right edge of the Address bar with a nice, cheery Pinterest “P” logo. Works well, except for one feature that also drove me crazy, almost crazy enough to remove the extension entirely.
In fact, it was as I was going through the process of deleting the Pinterest extension for Google Chrome that I realized that there was indeed a way to turn off the “hover pin-it buttons” feature.
And thank goodness, because I was about to give up on Pinterest entirely!
Let me start by showing the problem. So you’re in Chrome and you install the new button. Then you’re looking at an image, here one that’s on my Google Plus page:
Nothing unusual, but if I move the cursor over the photo itself…
Seems pretty benign with large images, but smaller images are also on the Pinterest hit list and more than once I have found that I couldn’t get to on-image control buttons (like the one in Google Plus that lets you step from one image to another when posting a link to a Web page) because the Pin it button was in the way. AUGH!
To fix it, go to Preferences…
Then click on “Extensions” on the left side. A ways down (depending on how many extensions you have installed) you’ll find:
It’s subtle. Really subtle. But “Options” is what you want, so click on it…
Ahhhh… that’s what we want. “Hide hovering Pin It buttons”. Click on it to check the check box.
Now close the preferences tab and… done. Gone. The Pinterest button is still on the top right, but the hovering buttons are no more.
Phew. Just when I though it was time to bail on Pinterest.
It all sounds promising. But following Dave’s directions in current Chrome (57.0) leaves me with a mixed response: rollovers upon some images are clean (as desired), rollovers on others show a sliver of a “P” icon, and rollovers on others show the full “P” icon. Looks like I’ll uninstall Pinterest extension, unless someone is kind enough to offer some advice more reliable than Dave’s. Sorry for discouraged tone.
Yeah, careful with that as well. I removed mine today and it broke the browser. Immediately it took 30 seconds to a minute to even display a page, even the new tab page. Then when it finally shows me the page it is another minute before any links start working.
Thanks, love this post!
Thank you! Great find.
THANK YOU!!!
I looked this up because I couldn’t figure out how to remove the “P”. Problem is, I don’t even have a Pinterest extension! I finally figured out that the site I was on had Pinterest pinning activated via a script.
How can I do it for Firefox? I have tried options and apps and nothing works.
I just have to express my gratitude. Thank you soooo much!!!
It’s also nice to know that this drive other people crazy too!
Thank you!
A MILLION BILLION THANK YOUS!
that helped so much see mine was so tiny and in the top left corner and it got a little annoying and so i try to get ride of it and i could not so THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH THAT REALLY HELPED A LOT
OMG! YAY!!!! ITS GONE!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!! IF YOUR READING THIS ON THE 24 of December 2015, which is the day I posted this, MERRY X-MAS TO ALL! (especially Dave, you’re a Christmas miracle!
Thank you so much!! It worked on Safari, too!
Thanks so much for your help! I checked everything on my website until it drove me crazy. I didn’t stop to think it could be the Chrome extension itself. You’ve made one blonde a little less dizzy. Thanks.
Thanks, this was so helpful!
THANK YOU! this was making me crazy!
I love Google-ling to find the answer. Thank you!
Thank you!
You can also turn off hoverbuttons by right-clicking the toolbar button and choosing Options. (This also works for any Chrome extension that has an Options page.) Very sorry if this caused trouble for you and your readers; we did our best to let people know with an alert when the update went out.
Kent, as a website, how can we remove this functionality from our site?
The new “Pin it” chrome extension clashes with existing functionality on our photos and creates bad user experience.
I saw you can disable it for specific photos only with a code snippet or make the whole site “un-pinable”, but we are simply interested in removing the specific chrome functionality. Other than that, our users enjoy pinning their content to Pinterest!
Any suggestions how we can resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance,
Danielle
@Kent
Well zoom to 2016 and the very latest Chrome running on Win10.
And “pin it” button appears on some images still? I have no “Pinterest” extension installed. I was looking through registry and no there is no “pinit” or “pinterest” inside it?
http://puu.sh/nRYzF/0372f9f6a6.jpg
Please advise how do we remove this?