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Hi, every time I look at a web link when I close the page Firefox adds it to my homepage as a new icon. Can you advise how I can stop this? Many thanks Mike

Hi, every time I look at a web link when I close the page Firefox adds it to my homepage as a new icon. Can you advise how I can stop this? Many thanks Mike

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Firefox fills the Shortcut section on the Firefox Home page with pages you visited recently. You can possibly pin your favorite webpages to each tile to prevent Firefox from filling them.

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Gekose oplossing

Firefox fills the Shortcut section on the Firefox Home page with pages you visited recently. You can possibly pin your favorite webpages to each tile to prevent Firefox from filling them.

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Filled in the remaining empty icon boxes which hopefully will fix it. Many thanks for the quick reply