New Tab Shortcuts: Create Your Own & Turn Off Auto Create From History

[DudeRadley]

Shortcuts are great, but you can't create your own and dismissed/deleted Shortcuts are automatically filled in based on your browsing history. This can gunk up the Shortcuts list pretty quick if you're not paying attention and pinning sites you want to keep as they appear.

Lets say you have two rows. You've pinned 10 Shortcuts as they're sites you frequent. There is no way to manually add a Shortcut, so the other 6 Shortcuts are then random websites pulled out of your History. And I mean random - like an Amazon page for a coffee maker or some site you'll never visit again that clicked over to from another page.

The options with unpinned Shortcuts are Dismiss or Delete From History. But if you choose either, the removed Shortcut is immediately replaced with another, random site*.

It would be cool to have the following options:

1. A toggle that allows you to "Disable Automatic Creation of Shortcuts" (for those that don't want them constantly filled up with random sites).
2. The ability to Create New Shortcuts. Like a + on the Home Page. You click it and it opens a "Create New Shortcut" dialog that looks like the Edit Shortcut one, but is empty and allows you to add the info yourself and create a new Shortcut.

*Yes, there is a bit of a workaround: If you delete your History you can then go and dismiss all the random, auto created Shortcuts but you still can't create your own and the empty spots start auto populating again after a few site visits.

[Jon]

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[bayardg]

You can create your own.

Simply choose edit from the shortcuts menu and put in your own label and site address.

I want to be able to set the new tab shortcuts to sync across all logged in browsers, can't see where that is possible.

[DudeRadley]

>> You can create your own.
>> Simply choose edit from the shortcuts menu and put in your own label and site address.

Yeah, I eventually caught on to this option, so there is that. It gave me something to do with all the random history shortcuts that were auto populating. Can't do this on mobile though. 

>> I want to be able to set the new tab shortcuts to sync across all logged in browsers, can't see where that is possible.

THIS would be awesome, especially on mobile. I mean, it already kind of, sort of syncs new tab shortcuts on FF desktop (most times; I've seen it act wonky on Mac), but it would be great if it was picked up on mobile as well. To be fair I don't think any mobile browser picks up new tab shortcuts.