Please split "Sites you save and visit" into two options: "Sites you save" and "Sites you visit"

[sujit_pal]

Please split "Sites you save and visit" into two options: "Sites you save" and "Sites you visit". Many of us do not want visited sited to come up in Shortcuts. It will make homepage look clean. This is available in Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi too. I hope you will implement this very soon. I have attached a screenshot.
Please up vote this idea. Thank you.

[ShahzebMW]

Mozilla, being a fan of you, You mean to tell me that you can add AI integration? but one problem on the homepage, you wont add it? its not even a bug or a problem, Its way simpler than that, I beg of you mozzila, plz make it in a mainstream fix. 

[herhor67]

How much longer can it take guys?

[tamko]

wow, just incredible that after so many years, the issue with a simple fix remains unsolved..

[gre4ka148]

How can this still be not implemented?

[rx]

Please add this to Firefox  's Firefox Home... this would really be appreciated.

[TSN2222]

Currently, when opening a new tab in Firefox, the shortcuts section displays a mix of sites I have intentionally saved and sites that are automatically added based on my browsing history. In Firefox Home Content settings, I have all options disabled except Shortcuts (Sites you save OR visit).

It would be awesome if this shortcut option were split into two separate settings:

• Saved shortcuts (user-added)

• Visited shortcuts (auto-generated from history)

This would allow users to display only the sites they explicitly save, without Firefox automatically adding sites based on search or browsing history. The current behavior quickly becomes cluttered and visually unappealing, especially for users who prefer a clean, intentional new tab layout.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[annorakanon]

(Bump,)

It's been nearly 4 yrs, what is taking so long bru🥀💔

but genuinely, it's like every other month or so i come back to searching for solutions to this exact thing and once again find that still no solution seems to be available. more than awful, honestly.

[Boobieta]

Too few people chiming in, they just ignore it. I had opened a bug for it way back then, but i was told it's literaly just a feature, not a bug. Being open-source, if i was a programmer, i'd have that fixed already. Maybe fork it.

[dk487]

Actually it _is_ UI bug, or at least design flaw. I really hate to see new page with anything except intentionally picked bookmarks. So I must either maintain nimber of shortcuts to be strictly 8, no more no less, either completely disable those stupid shortcuts. Is it good? Is it nice, usable, predictible? Nah.

[CallMeAlan]

Seriously?! This a has been an issue since 2022!! Please for the love of god Mozilla, fix this issue because it inconvenient to have no Shortcuts but i don't want you to keep the sites i visit because it looks bad, and it just shows my history out in the open. 

[CallMeAlan]

Seriously?! This has been an issue since 2022!! Please for the love of god Mozilla, fix this issue because it is inconvenient to have no Shortcuts and i don't want you to keep the sites i visit because it just shows my history out in the open. 

[KRUTOI]

I agree, this is necessary. My homepage is always cluttered. I want to see only pinned sites on my homepage.

[BrendanJMitch]

Big fan of Firefox! Please add this though, having browsing history displayed across the homepage is a major UX bummer. I was especially disappointed to find that at one point we had the option browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showRecentSaves. It wasn't really a great solution but it was something. But it was removed!

[medium_roasted]

edit: I see on GitHub that folks are being told this is an intentional feature with no plans to change. I would like to reiterate that this is non-accessible to conditions including multiple mental health conditions such as ADHD and is forcing anyone who wishes to use this feature to violate their own privacy. I am offended that the suggested workaround is to set a specific number of pinned tabs. This is offensive in major part because I chose to keep ads enabled to support Firefox, which disrupts the number of pins. The is secondly offensive because it is forcing users to customize their page a certain way as a feature workaround rather than truly being customizable. The illusion of choice. Firefox is forcing me to disable ads and use 3rd party tools and/or leave Firefox completely as a long-time (~20 years) user due to their apparent unwillingness to allow users to hide History from New Tab Shortcuts. 

Hello, May 2026 here and this is still a big issue! I have wasted over two hours of my day trying to workaround this using about:config and suggested steps from firefox support threads, reddit, etcetera. The options in about:config to set showVisited to false on the newtab page do not do anything! Other options do make changes, such as I can customize the number of rows and columns beyond what the basic settings provide for options and can manually edit the pinned tabs, yet cannot tell it not to display my history alongside my pins. This thread appears to have been locked since 2023 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-thoughts-on-the-home-quot-new-tab-quot-page-%E... 
I agree with a post there from November 8, 2023

1. I would like to have a "+" button to pin a new site on the homepage. Now, for this purpose I have to edit one of the last frequently used pages: at first I pin it, then edit its URL and name.

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Why do I have to go through so many steps to customize my pins to fill every space with a pin if I want pins without history? Also the options in about config to toggle whether bookmarks display on top sites also does not work. And it doesn't even show my most frequently visited pages. It appears to just be showing my history and not even in any particular order.

I do not wish to clear my history because I use it, but that usage is not from the top stories section on the new tab page. Therefore, "dismissing" as needed is not an option, as I would be dismissing recent pages for eternity. Not to mention the fact that it is airing my history to anyone present when I open a new tab if I want to use pins, therefore I must compromise by violating my own privacy to use the pinned sites on new tab feature. As it is, I use the options to hide my history and recent searches from the address bar and obviously my history is otherwise only viewable if I intentionally open the history menus. 

Maybe, as a user of Firefox, I would feel less inclined to complain about this if the tab groups saved persistently instead of being session based or clearing out with cache and temp file clears. 

Four years for a simple fix? I keep ads enabled including on the new tab page, despite that inconvenience to myself, in order to support Firefox. Therefore, simply modifying my number of rows and columns or even creating and modifying a css file would become more complicated as if I were to dismiss an ad, then a new item from my history would appear to fill in the gap. 

I consider the option for going onto GitHub to try to change this myself, but I cannot imagine such an edit would be readily accepted by the community from a "newbie". And considering that other browsers already use this distinction (pinned sites vs history), I don't see why it would be so difficult to implement the setting in the same manner as opposed to someone having to code it from scratch...since the feature exists.

Any users should not have to completely opt out of a common convenience feature or use a third party tool in order to protect their privacy on top of needing to customize and organize their home/new tab page. This seems like it is not accessible to people with conditions such as ADHD either. Where is the compassion? We don't care about nor want all these glitchy AI features when basic settings are still not available.

This would be similar to this suggestion of adding Tab Groups as a section to the new tab page. Alas, because tab groups do not save persistently like bookmarks, I can't imagine how this would work. I did see in about:config that there are true/false options for bookmarks and downloads as well as "visited" for top sites and highlights, however those settings made no changes no matter what combination I tried to toggle them in. 

I have used Firefox on and off since 2007 and have been back and forth with Brave, Librewolf, Chrome, and Safari. Of course I have also used edge and internet explorer. I have heard good things about Opera and Vivaldi, however there are particular things that I like about Firefox, and I do not think that I should have to compromise on a simple feature (which affects privacy and conditions such as adhd, ocd, other mental health conditions and could even affect accessibility for people with vision issues or migraine suffers because being able to see pinned sites on a clean new tab without the clutter can make a huge difference in ease of use) because Firefox is currently choosing to prioritize useless AI gimmicks over practicality. 

Apologies if this seems harsh or less than polite, but it is the truth. And I think that it is very rude of Firefox to not consider privacy, accessibility, and practicality when it comes to this feature which the fix for has been getting requested for ~4+ years. There may be only four pages here for those four years, but that is not counting all of the users who will never go out of their way to leave feedback like this, nor all of the users who are posted in mozilla help forums and reddit etcetera to attempt to mod and workaround this inaccessible, privacy violating feature. 

Perhaps a certain number of upvotes is required before a feature request becomes priority. If that is the case, I would share this thread on every social media to request this basic functionality be enabled. 

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