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Alter URL of Newtab tiles

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Vylmen
Vylmen
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I find it extremely inconvenient, that I can't simply change the URL of a tile in the Newtab window. The work-around through the bookmarks is inconvenient at best. In 90% of the cases you can't see what the URL is even, and so you go by recognition of the thumbnail - but whether this is a link "to the forum" or "one it's threads", is not always clear.

Also - I feel like I'm playing roulette trying to get the right things to show up there. It should really be as simple as right-click, "set url", get a prompt, fill in URL and be done with it.

I find it extremely inconvenient, that I can't simply change the URL of a tile in the Newtab window. The work-around through the bookmarks is inconvenient at best. In 90% of the cases you can't see what the URL is even, and so you go by recognition of the thumbnail - but whether this is a link "to the forum" or "one it's threads", is not always clear. Also - I feel like I'm playing roulette trying to get the right things to show up there. It should really be as simple as right-click, "set url", get a prompt, fill in URL and be done with it.

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Phoxuponyou
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I'm with you on that one, the New Tab page speed dial is still raw. You should send feedback to the dev team (as this is a volunteer forum) through the Mozilla input page here: https://input.mozilla.org/en-GB/feedback. One day it will be usable...

In the meantime, if you're not averse to a little typing exercise, go to about:config, promise to be careful and type in what URLs you would like to see in the browser.newtabpage.pinned preference. I suggest pinning placeholders first and then changing their values once pinned.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can change the order of the boxes on the about:newtab page and drag an item to a different tile to pin it to that position or you can remove a website by clicking the close X to block that URL. You can drag a bookmark or history item from the sidebar and drop it in a tile on the about:newtab page to pin this item and have your own favorites sites present.

Changes made manually on the about:newtab page are stored in prefs that you can find on the about:config page.

  • browser.newtabpage.pinned stores websites that you have pinned to a tile.
  • browser.newtabpage.blocked stores websites that you have removed by clicking the X button in a tile.