Customize Firefox Home on iOS

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Firefox Home on your iOS device displays your Shortcuts (frequently and recently visited pages), Your Library, recently visited tabs, recently saved bookmarks and Recommended stories.

You can choose which sections appear on Firefox Home and customize your shortcuts.

Set Firefox Home as your home page

See Set a homepage in Firefox for iOS to learn how to change your home page to Firefox Home.

View Firefox Home

To view Firefox Home, you can do so by:

  • Tapping on the address bar
  • Opening a new tab via the new tab IG plus button in the middle of your toolbar
  • Tapping the numeric tab icon in the lower right corner and tapping the new tab IG plus button

If Firefox Home is added to your toolbar, you can just tap the Firefox Home IG home icon.

Add Firefox Home to your toolbar

By default, your Firefox toolbar has the new tab IG plus button in the middle. You can change this out for the Firefox Home button instead, if you wish.

  1. Open the Firefox app.
  2. Tap the menu IG 3-dot horizontal button in your toolbar.
  3. Tap Settings.
  4. Tap Address Bar.
  5. Under the Toolbar Button section, tap Home.
  6. Tap < to return to the previous screen, then tap Done.

The Firefox Home IG home icon should now appear in the middle of your toolbar.

Customize Firefox Home

  1. Open Firefox Home and tap the menu button IG 3-dot horizontal in your toolbar.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Tap Homepage.
  4. Tap Shortcuts.
    • Tap the switch next to Shortcuts to turn it on (blue) or off (clear).
    • Tap the switch next to Sponsored Shortcuts to enable (blue) or disable (clear) sponsored shortcuts.
    • Tap Rows to select how many rows of shortcuts you want to see.
  5. Tap < to return to the previous screen.
    • Tap the switch next to Jump Back In to turn it on (blue) or off (clear).
    • Tap the switch next to Bookmarks to turn it on (blue) or off (clear).
    • Tap the switch next to Stories to turn it on (blue) or off (clear).

Your changes are saved automatically. Return to Firefox Home to see your updated layout.

Recommended stories on the Firefox for iOS homepage is a feature currently available in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and Spain.

Remove a Shortcut

If you don't want some of these sites to show up, you can easily remove them from your Shortcuts:

  1. Tap and hold on the Shortcut you want to remove until a menu appears.
  2. Tap Remove.

Pin a Shortcut

To make a site stay in your shortcuts:

  1. Tap the menu button IG 3-dot horizontal in your toolbar.
  2. Tap More.
  3. Tap Add to Shortcuts.

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