Customize items on your Firefox New Tab page

The Firefox New Tab page displays top sites shortcuts (sites you visit the most), pop articles on Pocket and your recently visited or bookmarked sites. You can customize this content by following the instructions below.

Annotation: To learn well-nigh other ways to change your New Tab brandish (such as to hibernate or show different sections or to bear witness a bare New Tab folio) see this article.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Customize your Shortcuts
    • i.ane Add together a Shortcut
    • one.2 Pin, unpin, or remove a Shortcut
    • 1.three Rearrange Shortcuts
    • 1.four Show more or fewer Shortcuts
  • two Move or remove a section
  • 3 Customize your Top Sites
    • 3.one Add a Acme Site
    • 3.2 Pivot, unpin, or remove a Superlative Site
    • 3.3 Rearrange Summit Sites
    • iii.4 Show more or fewer Peak Sites
  • 4 Recommended past Pocket
    • 4.1 Relieve or bookmark a Pocket story
    • 4.2 Open a page in a new window
    • 4.3 Remove a recommended article
  • 5 Highlights
    • 5.1 Relieve or bookmark a highlighted site
    • 5.2 Open a highlighted site in a new window
    • v.3 Remove a highlighted site
  • 6 Contempo Activity
    • 6.ane Save or bookmark a site from the Recent Activity department
    • half dozen.2 Open a site from the Recent Activity section in a new window
    • 6.3 Remove a site from the Contempo Activity section

Tiles displayed in Shortcuts (most visited), Recommended by Pocket and Recent activity (sites recently visited or bookmarked) sections of the New Tab page volition change based on browsing behavior, just y'all can pivot Shortcuts or remove these tiles.

Customize your Shortcuts

Your Shortcuts are the sites you visit most and the sites that you choose to Pin for like shooting fish in a barrel access. These sites volition also appear when you click on the address bar to start a search.

  1. Hover the mouse pointer over a Shortcut.
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  2. Click the three-dot menu that appears in the upper correct corner of the Shortcut.
  3. From here, you lot can choose to Pin, Edit or Dismiss (remove) the Shortcut.

Add together a Shortcut

If you have an empty tile:

  1. Hover the mouse pointer over an empty tile and click on Edit this site (the pencil icon).
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  2. Type in a championship and URL (web address) for the site, then click Add.
  3. A tile with the icon of the site will appear in your Shortcuts.

If you don't have an empty tile: Y'all tin edit an exiting Shortcut to show a new championship and URL.

  1. Hover the mouse pointer over an existing Shortcut that you lot no longer need.
  2. Click the three-dot carte du jour that appears in the upper correct corner of the Shortcut and choose .
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  3. Enter a new Title and URL in the Edit Shortcut dialog that opens and click Save.

Pivot, unpin, or remove a Shortcut

To pin a Shortcut (get in stay):

  1. Hover over the tile until the carte du jour (iii dots) appears.

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  2. Click .
  3. A pin icon will show up on your pinned Shortcut.
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To unpin a Shortcut:

  1. Hover over the tile until the menu (3 dots) appears.

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  2. Click .

To remove a Shortcut:

  1. Hover over the tile until the carte (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click .

Rearrange Shortcuts

Click and concur on a tile and drag it to some other spot.

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Evidence more or fewer Shortcuts

  1. In your New Tab folio, click the Personalize button.
  2. Under Shortcuts, select the number of Shortcut rows yous want to run across from the drib-downward bill of fare.
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Tiles displayed in Top Sites (near visited), Recommended past Pocket and Highlights (sites recently visited or bookmarked) sections of the New Tab page will change based on browsing behavior, but you tin pin tiptop sites or remove these tiles.

Move or remove a department

  1. Hover the mouse pointer anywhere within a section of tiles and click on the iii-dot menu that appears in the upper right corner of the department.
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  2. From here, you can choose to move, plummet or remove the section.

Customize your Pinnacle Sites

Your Meridian Sites are the sites you lot visit most and the sites that you lot choose to Pivot for piece of cake admission. These sites will too appear when you lot click on the address bar to get-go a search.

Add a Top Site

  1. Hover the mouse arrow anywhere within the Superlative Sites section of tiles and click on the three-dot menu that appears in the upper right corner.
  2. Click .
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  3. Type in a championship and URL for the site, and then click Add together.
  4. A tile with the first letter from the title will announced in your Summit Sites.

Pin, unpin, or remove a Top Site

To pin a Top Site (make information technology stay):

  1. Hover over the tile until the menu (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click .
  3. A pin icon volition show up on your pinned site.
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To unpin a Top Site:

  1. Hover over the tile until the menu (3 dots) appears.

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  2. Click .

To remove a Pinnacle Site:

  1. Hover over the tile until the menu (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click .

Rearrange Height Sites

Click and hold on a tile and drag it to another spot.

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Evidence more than or fewer Top Sites

  1. Hover over the Peak Sites section until the Edit link appears.
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  2. Choose from the following options:
    • Prove More adds some other row of acme sites
    • Show Fewer removes a row of acme sites.
    • Add lets you lot add a specific site to your acme sites past entering a link and a proper noun for the site. Sites you add will automatically be pinned.
  3. Click Done when you're finished.

Pocket is now part of Mozilla and brings the all-time stories on the Web right to your New Tab page. From hither, you tin can save articles, remove them or open up them in a new tab. You lot can even explore more than stories by clicking on the categories presented on the New Tab page.

Recommended by Pocket stories on the New Tab page is a feature currently available in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Germany. We're working to bring it to other countries.

Save or bookmark a Pocket story

  1. Hover over the commodity until the menu (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click the menu and cull one of the post-obit:
    • : A prompt will ask y'all to requite your bookmark a proper noun and tags.
    • : A prompt will inquire you to sign up for a gratuitous Pocket business relationship or sign in if you lot have an existing account.
  3. Click Done when you're finished.

Open a page in a new window

Want to view the article now? You can open up it in a new window.

  1. Hover over the article until the menu (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click or if yous don't want it to exist saved in your browsing history.

Remove a recommended article

  1. Hover over the commodity until the card (iii dots) appears.

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  2. Click the menu then click to remove it from your Pocket recommendations.

Highlights

Highlighted sites are sites y'all've visited recently or bookmarked. Firefox will indicate whether a site is highlighted because yous've bookmarked or visited information technology.

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Relieve or bookmark a highlighted site

  1. Hover over the article until the carte (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click the carte and choose one of the following:
    • : A prompt will ask you to give your bookmark a name and tags.
    • : A prompt will enquire you to sign upward for a costless Pocket business relationship or sign in if you have an existing account.
  3. Click Done when you're finished.

Open a highlighted site in a new window

  1. Hover over the commodity until the carte (3 dots) appears.

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  2. Click or if you don't want information technology to exist saved in your browsing history.

Remove a highlighted site

  1. Hover over the article until the bill of fare (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click the menu then click to remove information technology from your highlights. You lot can too click to remove highlighted pages from your browsing history.

Recent Action

Recent Activity displays the sites you've recently visited, bookmarked, or saved to Pocket. Firefox will show in each tile the Pocket icon, the bookmark star, or the contempo visit clock icon.

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Save or bookmark a site from the Recent Action section

  1. Hover over the article until the carte (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click the carte and cull 1 of the following:
    • : A prompt will ask yous to give your bookmark a name and tags. Click Save when you're finished.
    • : If yous are non signed-in, a prompt will ask yous to sign upwardly for a free Pocket account or sign in if you already have an account. In one case signed-in, sites are saved to Pocket immediately.

Open a site from the Recent Action section in a new window

  1. Hover over the article until the menu (3 dots) appears.

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  2. Click , or if you don't want information technology to be saved in your browsing history.

Tip: Correct-click Concur downwardly the command primal while you click on a tile, for more options in the context menu.

Remove a site from the Recent Activity department

  1. Hover over the article until the card (three dots) appears.

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  2. Click the menu, then click to remove it from the Recent Activity department.
    You can also click to remove highlighted pages from your browsing history.

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