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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

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

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

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?

I have not changed my settings -- still want 1 row of shortcuts. They were just fine this morning but now the whole row is gone -- it's blank. I don't know how to get them back and can't seem to create new ones. Looked all through the Firefox settings but no good. What happened? Please advise.

I am able to save tabs to collections. However, there is no collections section on my homescreen, despite support articles and questions indicating it should just be there. When I turn shortcuts and stories on, they still do not appear. How do I make collections show up?

I've previously asked this question but it has been archived without any action.

I have the current Android Firefox installed, my homepage setting has 'recently visited' UNCHECKED, but the homepage is adding all my recently, or possibly 'frequently visited' visited, pages! Swipe sideways to show even more of them. The only thing that should be on my homepage are shortcuts - things that I wanted to pin - since the specifically unticked 'recently visited'.

This is a privacy issue as well as just a bug. Please fix this urgently.

I've also put this on my review on Play store as I consider it something that needs attention...

The browser is very nice and fast, but Firefox only shows 8 of your favorite sites on the home screen. Please increase this visibility to 30. The home screen has a huge screen, but there are unnecessary shortcuts like tabs are pasted, and people don't use them anyway. There is also the option to add tabs under the settings shortcuts, but instead of adding tabs when returning to the home screen, a home shortcut can be added, and it would be more useful.

Hello, due to problems with the Firefox Beta (for Android), I switched to the stable version. However, with this version I also encounterd some problems, mainly regarding the homepage: In the beta version collections are displayed (at the bottom) of the homepage. In my stable version, I cannot see the collections at all. I can still add sites to collections, and when doing so, all my collections are shown but I don't know how to access them. I could not find anything about it in the settings. Is this the regular behavior? If not, how can I change it?

Best regards

Previously, I had my firefox homepage configured to not show shortcuts or recently visited websites, as I feel it is clutter. However, recently, shortcuts have re-appeared, with no option to disable/hide them in the homepage settings (Settings > Homepage only shows Stories, Wallpaper, and app Opening Screen; see attached image). Wondering if this is a feature that was removed (if so, would love to see this reverted), if it is a bug that needs fixing, or I'm missing something.

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

Recently, my homepage has started showing shortcuts again, a feature I previously had turned off cause I dislike it and it often just shows random sites and searches I've done. I went to turn it off again, only for the toggle switch or shortcuts section of the customization settings to not be there at all??? Is this a glitch? Because I don't like this feature and I really hope they've changed it to something you can't turn off

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.

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 have selected 'bookmarks' for my homepage thinking i could choose the pages that I most frequently open to be the most prominent. However it seems impossible to do anything except 'delete,' that which has been randomly chosen, which negates the purpose. Seems like something thats been overlooked in the 'upgrade,' if theres something I'm missing please let me know.