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Firefox short cuts

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treknutz
treknutz

I have 4 rows of shortcuts that are being changed every time I visit a new site. How can I lock them in so they won't be changed and to keep them where I arrange them?

I have 4 rows of shortcuts that are being changed every time I visit a new site. How can I lock them in so they won't be changed and to keep them where I arrange them?

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

This support article should help you to pin a shortcut on the new tab page:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-items-on-firefox-new-tab-page#w_pin-unpin-or-remove-a-shortcut

marcd2k
marcd2k

This is not helping with the actual problems that Firefox has with Short Cuts. There are two individual things happening with Short Cuts that are not desirable.

1. Firefox creates Short Cut icons on its own. Every day there are Short Cuts that I did not want on my page.

2. These automatically created Short Cut icons cannot be removed. No matter how many times "Dismiss" is selected, the icon is still on the main page.

How do you stop automatic Short Cuts from being created? And how do you Dismiss icons that will not be Dismissed?