Overview of Firefox Settings panels

Account and sync

This panel includes default browser, account, sync, device name, import browser data, profiles, and more::

• Default browser: Set Firefox as your default browser and restore previous sessions.
  • Make Firefox your default browser.
  • Set Firefox to restore your previous session at startup.
  • Import data from another browser.
• Sync
• Profiles
• Backup your data
• Mozilla account
• Import browser data
• Profiles
• Backup your data
• Firefox updates:
  • Check your update history or change update settings for Firefox.
• Browsing: Enable caret browsing and text search.
• Network settings: Set up proxies or manage connection settings.
  • Change Firefox connection settings and set a proxy to connect to the Internet.

Overview of Firefox Settings panels

General

This panel includes startup, tab behavior, downloads, language settings and more:

• Startup: Set Firefox as your default browser and restore previous sessions.
  • Make Firefox your default browser.
  • Set Firefox to restore your previous session at startup.
  • Import data from another browser.
• Tabs: Manage your tabs.
  • Choose how tabs are opened.
• Language and appearance: Change fonts, colors, zoom level and interface language.
  • Change website appearance settings in Firefox.
  • Change the fonts and colors websites use.
  • Change the size of webpage content.
  • Choose the language to display menus, notifications, messages and other parts of the Firefox interface.
  • Choose a preferred display language for web pages.
  • Use the Firefox spell checker.
• Downloads: Choose where downloaded files are saved.
  • Change the download folder Firefox uses to save files.
• Firefox updates:
  • Check your update history or change update settings for Firefox.
• Applications: Set how Firefox handles different file types.
  • Change the application used or the action taken for different file types.
  • Choose whether to watch DRM content in Firefox.
• Performance: Adjust hardware acceleration and content processes.
  • Customize performance settings in Firefox.
• Browsing:
  • Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages (caret browsing).
  • Search for text when you start typing.
  • Enable Picture-in-Picture video controls
  • Control media via keyboard, headset or virtual device.
  • Recommend extensions as you browse.
  • Recommend features as you browse.
• Network Settings:Proxy settings: Set up proxies or manage connection settings.
  • Change Firefox connection settings and set a proxy to connect to the Internet.

Home

Customize what appears when you open Firefox:

• Homepage and new windows: Set a custom URL or use the default Firefox Home.
  • Choose what you see when you open your home page, a new Firefox window or a new tab.
  • Set your home page or new windows to the default Firefox home page, a blank page or a custom URL.
• New tabs: Choose what appears on new tab pages.
  • You can set new tabs to open the default Firefox home page or a blank page.
• Firefox Home content: Toggle web search, top sites, recommendations and more.
  • Customize content on the New Tab page, including Web Search, shortcuts to most visited sites, recommended stories and recent activity.

Home and startup

Customize what appears when you open Firefox:

• Default browser
• On startup
• Homepage: Set a custom URL or use the default Firefox Home.
  • Choose what you see when you open your home page, a new Firefox window or a new tab.
  • Set your home page or new windows to the default default Firefox home page, a blank page or a custom URL.
• Firefox Home: Toggle web search, top sites, recommendations and more.
  • Customize content on the New Tab page, including Web Search, shortcuts to most visited sites, recommended stories and recent activity.

• Manage Firefox search settings
• Manage one-click search shortcuts
• Control the address bar settings

• Default search engine
• Additional search engines
• Search engine suggestions
• Firefox Suggest

Manage privacy, security and site permissions:

• Enhanced Tracking Protection: Block trackers and cookies.
  • Control settings for the Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection.
• Cookies and site data: Manage or clear data stored by websites.
  • Control whether websites can sell or share your data.
  • Manage website cookies.
  • Manage website data storage.
  • Manage cached web content.
• Logins and passwords: Control password saving and autofill.
  • Manage passwords.
  • Fill in forms.
• History: Manage browsing, download and search history.
  • Manage your browsing, download, search and form history
• Permissions: Control website access to your location, camera, notifications and more.
  • Manage Web Push notifications.
  • Manage pop-up windows.
  • Manage warnings when websites try to install add-ons.
• Firefox data collection and use: Decide whether to share usage data.
  • Allow Firefox to send technical and interactive data to Mozilla.
  • Install and run studies.
  • Send crash reports to Mozilla.
  • Perform privacy-preserving ad measurement.
• HTTPS-Only Mode: Enable encrypted connections only.
  • View and manage website certificates and security devices.
  • Block dangerous content or downloads.
  • Enable or disable HTTPS-Only Mode.

• Enhanced Tracking Protection: Block trackers and cookies.
  • • Control settings for the Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection.
    • Customize tracking protection
      • Tracking protection
      • Reset customizations
• Built-in VPN
• Browsing data
• History
  • Manage browsing, download and search history.
    • Manage your browsing, download, search and form history
• Additional protection
• DNS over HTTPS
  • Advanced settings
• Connection and software security
• Security warnings
• Connection and software security
  • HTTPS-Only Mode
    • Enable encrypted connections only.
      • View and manage website certificates and security devices.
      • Block dangerous content or downloads.
      • Enable or disable HTTPS-Only Mode.
  • Proxy settings
  • Deceptive content and dangerous software protection
  • Certificates
• Cookies, History and Site Data: Manage or clear data stored by websites.
  • Control whether websites can sell or share your data.
  • Manage website cookies.
  • Manage website data storage.
  • Manage cached web content.

Password and autofill

Manage your passwords, credentials, automatic payments, and addresses.

• Passwords
  • Additional protections
  • Logins and passwords: Control password saving and autofill.
    • Manage passwords.
    • Fill in forms.
• Payments methods
• Addresses and more

Appearance

Customize your browsing experience.

• Website appearance
• Browser theme
• Related settings
  • Appearance: Change fonts, colors, zoom level and interface language.
    • Change website appearance settings in Firefox.
    • Change the fonts and colors websites use.
    • Change the size of webpage content.
    • Choose the language to display menus, notifications, messages and other parts of the Firefox interface.
    • Choose a preferred display language for web pages.
    • Use the Firefox spell checker.

Downloads

Choose where to save your downloads, and how to open files and applications in Firefox.

• Saves files to
  • Downloads: Choose where downloaded files are saved.
    • Change the download folder Firefox uses to save files.
• Files and applications
  • Applications: Set how Firefox handles different file types.
    • Change the application used or the action taken for different file types.
    • Choose whether watch DRM content in Firefox.

Tabs and browsing

Manage and organize tabs, and improve the browsing experience in Firefox.

• Browser layout
  • Choose horizontal or vertical tabs
  • Enable or disable the sidebar
• Tabs
  • Tabs: Manage your tabs.
    • Choose how tabs are opened.
• Page navigation
• Media
• Performance
  • Performance: Adjust hardware acceleration and content processes.
    • Customize performance settings in Firefox.
• Recommendations

Accessibility

Customize accessibility options in Firefox.

• Default Zoom
• Fonts
• Website contrast
• Keyboard navigation and scrolling
• Motion and link styling

Languages

Customize browser and website languages. Set up translations and spell checking in Firefox.

• Browser language
• Website language
• Translations
  • Automatic translation
  • Speed up translation
• Spell check

Permissions and data

Control permissions and data collection in Firefox.

• Permissions
  • Permissions: Control website access to your location, camera, notifications and more.
    • Manage Web Push notifications.
    • Manage pop-up windows.
    • Manage warnings when websites try to install add-ons.
• Firefox data collection and use
  • Firefox data collection and use: Decide whether to share usage data.
    • Allow Firefox to send technical and interactive data to Mozilla.
    • Install and run studies.
    • Send crash reports to Mozilla.
    • Perform privacy-preserving ad measurement.

Sync

Sign in with your Mozilla account to sync bookmarks, passwords, history and more across devices:

1. Click Sync in the Settings sidebar.
2. Sign in or create an account.
3. Choose what types of data to sync.

AI Controls

This panel provides a place to block generative AI features in Firefox:

• You can use the Block AI enhancements switch to block all new or current AI features in Firefox.
• You can review and manage individual AI features available in Firefox, in website translations, when you add alt text to PDF images, when you use AI-enhanced Tab group suggestions or when you view key points in link previews.
• You can block or manage AI Chatbots in Firefox.