How To Stop Firefox Automatically Adding Shortcuts to my New Tabs
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03-08-2025 09:11 PM
How do I stop Firefox adding to my shortcuts. I want to control what is on new tabs. All suggestions so far do not work.
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04-26-2025 06:51 AM
Go to Firefox settings, on the left hand panel click on home, then scroll down until you come to Firefox Home Content. You should see shortcuts and under that Sponsored Links. Untick the blue box next to that and you should be all set.
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05-25-2025 01:20 PM
It does NOT work and yes I unticked the "Sponsored Links" box and virtually every freakin site I visit ends up adding yet another unwanted shortcut I then have to tediously delete. Like a fool I support Mozilla financially both for Firefox and Thunderbird and yet they have not addressed this awful invasive/intrusive fault in their browser.
What I want is the choice to put only those shortcuts that I choose on my home page and not to have any automatically added - Period!!!!!!!!!
So, Mozilla are you listening, make it happen or I go back to Brave.
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04-27-2025 04:02 AM
Another way of doing it is to set all the four lines to show on your home page. Pin every box of the four lines, then set the first lines with the sites you want. Then reset how many lines you want shown according to the sites you want shortcuts to. It worked for me.

