Firefox for Android Community Forum

Until a few weeks (or days) ago, tapping the address bar opened the homepage. Now, it opens search. Is there a way to go back to opening the homepage?

Followup: when activating the setting to show shortcuts in the address bar, only the first two shortcuts are shown - can I get Firefox to show more?

145.0 (Build #2016124727) GV: 145.0-20251106194447 AS: 145.0 OS: Android 16

On my Samsung Tablet, the Firefox landing page used to have the pinned shortcuts displayed. Now don't even get the landing page, just a Google Search line and Firefox message about leaving no traces.

Would it be possible in your next release/update to allow us to put our collections into alphabetical order for ease of finding if you have a lot. Thanks in advance. Chris

My page with shortcuts no longer shows? And when l tried to save my shortcuts again l get the message l am not allowed to because the page is full! But where can l find if, though?

I keep getting unwanted [expletive] like news stories I don't want on android Firefox I DONT WANT THIS [expletive]. GET IT OFF MY PHONE AND OFF MY APPS!!!! !!!!? O don't want to see this [expletive] whenever I open the app. Fix it.

Last week my collections just disappeared from the home screen of Firefox. I used them as bookmark folders, so now it's quite inconvenient. Is it a bug or a new feature, how do I access my collection in Android?

Previously, in the shortcut screen, you could swipe left right to display the other eight shortcuts. This no longer works. I have to tap showall to display all the shortcuts. Additionally the showall setting should be remembered, you shouldn't have to do two taps to get to the second list. Firefox version info attached Galaxy S23 Ultra, SM-S918B/DS Android 16, one UI 8.0 Regards Rob Carter

I was able to sign in to my account for Firefox and I got my bookmarks back; the odd thing is Mozilla tries to put a bunch of them on the home page, and I can't get rid of them. Also in the edition of Firefox I downloaded, the default search engine that they set up is Google. Unbelievable. So I changed that to Firefox as the default search engine. There some "sponsored" bookmarks on the home page I can't get rid of. And I cannot figure out hosw to get my Collections back on the main page. I loved that Collections feature on the home page.

Following a recent update, the behavior when clicking the URL bar has changed. Previously, it would show my pinned sites, or a list of sites I've visited previously. Now, after turning off all the other garbage that I don't want to see, I get a list of two sites. How can I increase the number of top sites that get displayed?

Hello. Im using Firefox 143.0.3, the latest version available. But before the update shortcuts appeared on my homepage. Now i cannot disable because the option (settings > homepage > shortcuts) disappeared. What can i do? It was normal (with the options) until a couple of hours ago. Even the option to pin shortcus disappeared. Im very confused. Please help. Thanks.

Hello!

It would be nice to go back to the old style of the management of the Shortcuts in the browsers homepage. The new style was a regression. Let the browser user decide what style he likes.

And, - allow moving (sorting) the Shortcut links within the homepage (per drag and drop), - allow more than two Shortcut separate pages within the homepage or more than 16 Shortcuts, - remove the pin symbol from the Shortcut image, it looks terrible and it is superfluous. (I use ONLY my own shortcuts, nothing else, so the pin symbol is not needed.)

Thank you Mario

Dear Firefox Support,

I am a long-time Firefox user and greatly appreciate the privacy-focused and user-friendly experience your browser offers. However, I would like to request an enhancement to the Android version of Firefox.

Currently, the Firefox Start Page on Android only displays two rows of shortcut icons under "Top Sites" (Pinned Shortcuts). This limitation restricts quick access to frequently used websites, especially for users who rely on visual organization.

I would kindly request the option to customize the number of visible shortcut rows — for example, allowing up to 5 or more rows — directly from the app’s settings. This would greatly improve usability and personalization without affecting the minimalist design of the Start Page.

Thank you for your work and consideration. I hope this suggestion can be taken into account for a future update.

Best regards, Florin

Hi, I've recently changed my phone to a Motorola g85. Since then, the homepage only shows me shortcuts and stories. No history, no last page visited, no anonymous button. I can't fix it in Settings either. Help, please. Thanks so much. Best regards, Amelia

While customizing my homepage, I chose to have "stories" section to always show up. Is there a way to personalize those stories to my interests? I have no interest in the ones showing up, especially being mostly politics and world news.

I'm unhappy with the new version of the app, 143.0, which my app was just updated to. Specifically, the appearance of the tab homepage. The empty space previously occupied by the search bar at the top of the screen, and the lack of features such as recently opened tabs, or the "Jump Back In" box, both of which have been removed in favour of irrelevant stories. The ability to turn back on features like that would be greatly appreciated.

In addition, updating seems to have completely cleared out my app's history, now only showing me my synced history from other devices.

I download pictures frequently and have noticed an issue with Firefox. It appears that Firefox is accessing my files and replacing random pictures I had previously organized in my Pictures folder. Even though I declined the permission for Firefox to access my pictures, it somehow still reads my files and replacing them it likes to. How can I stop this behavior? It doesn’t happen with other browsers.

There is an easy way to replicate this issue on the Firefox release, beta, and nightly versions:

1. Download a picture.

2. Move the picture to any folder within the Pictures folder.

3. Redownload the same picture again.

4. Click "Open" directly and open in Google Photos.

5. Click the three dots in the top-right corner to confirm the file's location.

You will see that Firefox knows the new file location and opens it from there. This indicates that Firefox is accessing file information directly because the "Open" function wouldn’t work if a third-party app was responsible for managing it.