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I had my startup page EXACTLY as I wished with two rows of most often used links to websites. While trying to find a solution to "page jumping" I use Help; "troubleshooting mode" and selected "Restart Firefox in Troubleshooting Mode". It did not solve the page jumping issue but did remove MY customized startup page and I do not how to get it back. I also used "Exit" and restarted Firefox but Firefox set my page to the default start page.

How do I get back to MY old startup page?

This is but one frustrating experience setting up MY computer to perform as I wish ... the computer culture has become "user unfriendly" .... what was once simple is now "too highly geek-ed".

Thanks in advance for your effort in solving yet another Firefox rabbit-hole problem.

When I use Firefox it removes shortcuts from my home screen (starting from the right) and replaces them with sites that I visit, even if I visit them only once.

I have been to settings, Recent Activity is turned off, Rows are set to 2, and the only other option is Shortcuts > Sites you save or visit.

I don't want Firefox to automatically add visited sites to my shortcuts and remove my saved sites.

This happens often. I start Firefox, and on the home page is a list of articles linked to several different publications. So I'm generally already on a mission, but I think "I'll come back to that article later", and I go off to do what I logged in to do. And when I get back to the article a few minutes or hours later, it's gone! There is a new set of articles. The articles have all refreshed, and the one I wanted to read is gone. So can I see back to what that was? Or some other way to retrieve that article I never got to read before it went away?