Hide Pocket in your Firefox New Tab page

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  • Creator: Fabi
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Pocket for Firefox allows you to easily save a variety of content, such as blogs, news sources, web pages, and videos, with the click of a button.

When opening a new Firefox tab, Pocket will automatically display recommended stories, which feature the best content on the Web that other Pocket users have collected. However, you can easily hide these recommended stories from displaying in your Firefox browser on any device.

Learn more at Pocket's Firefox New Tab FAQ page.

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

Hiding recommended stories on your computer

  1. Open a new Firefox tab.
  2. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Settings (select Preferences on older macOS versions).Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select Settings.
  3. Select the Home panel.
    You can also click the Personalize button in the upper right of the new tab, click Manage more settings and then go to the Home panel.
  4. In the Firefox Home Content section, deselect the Sponsored shortcuts checkbox if you do not want to continue to receive sponsored content.
  5. In the Recent activity section, deselect Pages Saved to Pocket.
  1. Open a new Firefox tab.
  2. In the Menu bar at the top of the screen, click Firefox and select Settings (select Preferences on older macOS versions).Click the menu button Fx89menuButton and select Settings.
  3. Select the Home panel.
    You can also click the cogwheel icon in the upper right of the new tab.
  4. Deselect the Recommended by Pocket checkbox in the Firefox Home Content section.
  5. Deselect the Sponsored Stories checkbox if you do not want to continue to receive sponsored content.

Hiding recommended stories on your Android device

  1. Open the Firefox for Android app.
  2. Tap the menu button to open the menu panel.
  3. Tap Settings.
  4. Tap General.
  5. Tap Home.
  6. Tap Top Sites.
  7. Tap the Recommended by Pocket toggle to turn it off.

Hiding recommended stories on your iOS device

  1. Open the Firefox for iOS app.
  2. Tap the menu button to open the menu panel.
  3. Tap Settings.
  4. Tap Home.
  5. Tap the Trending on Pocket toggle to turn it off.