How to display "favorite" bookmark icons on my main Firefox window?
I had been able to display several of my favorite bookmark icons directly on the firefox "new tab" page. Able to access those displayed bookmarks without opening bookmark dropdown. To save screen space I do not display the bookmark toolbar. Somehow I erased this feature that I find very handy (only 1 click, vs 2 clicks: ha, talk about lazy.)
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Hi oldguy00, that built-in page is called "Firefox Home" and it's normally both your home page (startup page in new windows) and your new tab page. To check on whether that changed, or whether the "Top Sites" section got hidden, please go to the Options page:
- Windows: "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Options
- Mac: "3-bar" menu button (or Firefox menu) > Preferences
- Linux: "3-bar" menu button (or Edit menu) > Preferences
- Any system: type or paste about:preferences into the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it
In the left column, click Home
Then on the right side, you should find all the relevant settings.
Sometimes you may see a message that an extension (a kind of add-on) has taken control of your home page or new tab page.
You can view, disable, and often remove unwanted or unknown extensions on the Add-ons page. Either:
- Ctrl+Shift+a (Mac: Command+Shift+a)
- "3-bar" menu button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons
- type or paste about:addons in the address bar and press Enter/Return
In the left column of the Add-ons page, click Extensions.
Then cast a critical eye over the list on the right side. Any extensions Firefox installs for built-in features are hidden from this page, so everything listed here is your choice (and your responsibility) to manage. Anything suspicious or that you just do not remember installing or why? If in doubt, disable (or remove).
Any improvement?
Note that probably easiest is to set the home page to the Firefox Home page via "Options/Preferences -> Home". Then you only need to click the Home toolbar button to open the page with the tiles.
If you have pages pinned to the Firefox Home page then you may want to backup the browser.newtabpage.pinned pref that stores websites that you have pinned to a tile.
You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.
Think of my/your smartphone. I have 50-60 apps loaded on it. However I only display about 10 that I use routinely. I want to do the same with my mozilla duckduckgo window. I had been displaying the 5-6 bookmarks that I use regularly on the screen, while the rest remain tucked away in the dropdown button. Somehow these favorite icons were removed and I want to find a way to reload them back onto the window page.