Customize items on your Firefox New Tab page

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By default, Firefox displays top sites (sites you visit the most), popular articles on Pocket, your recently visited or bookmarked sites and updates from Mozilla every time you open a new tab.

Change these settings at any time by following these instructions.

Firefox's default behavior is to display top sites on the New Tab page. Learn how to customize this page by pinning, removing sites or rearranging these sites.

Note: To change or to turn off the New Tab display, or to change how many rows of tiles are shown in Top Sites, see also Customize your New Tab page to hide or display content.

Tiles displayed in Top Sites (most visited), Recommended by Pocket and Highlights (sites recently visited or bookmarked) sections of the New Tab page will change based on browsing behavior, but you can pin top sites or remove these tiles.

Move or remove a section

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

Customize your Top Sites

Add a Top Site

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

Pin a Top Site

To make a site stay:

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

    tile menu 57
  2. Click Pin.
  3. A pin icon will show up on your pinned site.
    pinned tile 57

Unpin a Top Site

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

    tile menu 57
  2. Click Unpin.

Remove a Top Site

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

    tile menu 57
  2. Click Dismiss

Rearrange Top Sites

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

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Show more or fewer Top Sites

  1. Hover over the Top Sites section until the Edit link appears.
    edit top sites 57
  2. Choose from the following options:
    • Show More adds another row of top sites
    • Show Fewer removes a row of top sites.
    • Add lets you add a specific site to your top sites by entering a link and a name for the site. Sites you add will automatically be pinned.
  3. Click Done when you're finished.

Recommended by Pocket

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

Pocket stories are currently available in the United States, Canada, the U.K., Germany, Italy, France and Spain but we're working hard to bring it to other countries. Stay tuned.

Save or bookmark a Pocket story

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

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click the menu and choose one of the following:
    • Bookmark: A prompt will ask you to give your bookmark a name and tags.
    • Save to Pocket: A prompt will ask you to sign up for a free Pocket account or sign in if you 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 it in a new window.

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

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click Open in a New Window or Open in a New Private Window if you don't want it to be saved in your browsing history.

Remove a recommended article

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

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click the menu then click Dismiss to remove it from your Pocket recommendations.
Got questions? See the Pocket Recommendations in Firefox -- Frequently Asked Questions.

Highlights

Highlighted sites are sites you've visited recently or bookmarked. Firefox will indicate whether a site is highlighted because you've bookmarked or visited it.

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Save or bookmark a highlighted site

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

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click the menu and choose one of the following:
    • Bookmark: A prompt will ask you to give your bookmark a name and tags.
    • Save to Pocket: A prompt will ask you to sign up for a free Pocket account 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 article until the menu (three dots) appears.

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click Open in a New Window or Open in a New Private Window if you don't want it to be saved in your browsing history.

Remove a highlighted site

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

    pocket menu 57
  2. Click the menu then click Dismiss to remove it from your highlights. You can also click Delete from History to remove highlighted pages from your browsing history.

Pin a Tile

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Click the pin icon in the top-left corner of the Tile to lock it in that position on the page.

Tip: Set up Firefox Sync to sync your pinned Tiles across your other computers.

Remove a Tile

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Click the "X" in the top-right corner of the site to delete it from the page.

Note: If you accidentally remove a site you can get it back by clicking Undo at the top of the page. For several removed sites click Restore All.

Rearrange Tiles

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Click and drag a Tile into the position you want. It will be "pinned" to its new location.

Add a Tile from your bookmarks

You can also open the bookmarks library and drag bookmarks to the New Tab page.

  1. Before you begin, set Firefox to remember history. See Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track.
  2. Click the menu button Fx89menuButton to open the menu panel. Click Bookmarks and then click the Manage bookmarks bar at the bottom.
  3. Drag a bookmark into the position you want.
    addbookmark tiles

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