"Editing" a shortcut no longer works since the new Firefox update.

Styven_Mathieu — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:49:40 GMT

Hello Firefox team, I hope you're doing well. (Apologies in advance for my English; I am French, so I am using Google Translate).

Since your major update, the "Edit" function for shortcuts no longer works as it used to.

Before the update, when I clicked "Edit," I could change the site URL and click "Save," and the shortcut would update correctly without creating a new one.

Now, however, when I click "Save," the original shortcut remains unchanged, and a new shortcut is created instead of modifying the old one. Consequently, I constantly have to delete the old shortcut and move the new one to the spot where the old one used to be.

So, instead of performing a single action, I have to do three: save, delete, and move.

On top of that, since I only use 2 out of the 4 shortcut bars, the new shortcut automatically opens the 3rd bar; consequently, I constantly have to go in and change it back to 2 bars instead of 3.

So, it’s not just three actions I have to perform instead of one — it’s four actions instead of the single one required before the update.

And yes, I am definitely clicking the "Edit" option, not "Add new shortcut." I have also disabled all my extensions to see if they were the cause of the problem.

Could you please revert the "Edit" option to the way it was before—modifying the existing URL instead of adding a new shortcut?

Thank you very much in advance.

Re: "Editing" a shortcut no longer works since the new Firefox update.

dnery — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:04:49 GMT

I noticed the same and I'm similarly frustrated. I recall being positively surprised, in an older (but still recent) version, being able to modify my shortcuts, and in my Mac I remapped "Edit > Redo" to Cmd+Y instead of the default Cmd+Shift+Z, to feel a bit more consistent with my Windows machine.

In one of the most recent October versions, I restored all my keybindings to default in "about:keyboard" to go through each one-by-one, since I had just installed many extensions and was experiencing conflicts. I then noticed that many mappings can no longer be changed... what's up with that?

Is that some safety measure due to the novel shell exploits we've been seeing? If not, can we please get that functionality back?

Thank in advance to the Mozilla team for making Firefox possible, and ensuring it continues to exist to this day.

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