New Idea for Firefox start/home page

Firefox Development
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Hi to all Mozilla Firefox team

I am a long time Firefox user since I have been a Linux user for well over a decade. Our world is all wrapped around more data, personal or not. So why not use this data to our advantage.

I have a suggestion about a new feature to Firefox homepage / start page when I open the browser.

And that is to group “Recent” links (or pinned) to a group (just like in Android / iOS). This would go more to the idea of “pinned” links rather than “recent” ones. I can drag these links and modify the lineup, but I can’t arrange them any more than that. My idea of groups would be: Socials, Finances, Work, AI and many many more. Maybe I am combining the feature of a Folder on a computer added with the Bookmark of the site/place I am visiting.

The links are often helpful when I am scrolling or just even out of ideas over the weekends.

I would love to see Firefox be at the front of this simple innovation - And I am very sure that all the rest will follow.

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Thank you for your desire to improve Firefox.

That sounds like a feature that can be implemented in a new tab page add-on. You might want to search addons.mozilla.org to see what others have already created. There are many, i searched for “new tab recent” and found 1155 results.

This isn’t a very active forum. If you think it should be built-in to Firefox you should add the suggestion to Mozilla Connect.

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That sounds like a feature that can be implemented in a new tab page add-on.

Yeah, that’s what I do. Though I write and use my own extensions, I don’t do the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Addon store thing.

First I set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config for the ability to load my own local extensions without some signature.

Here’s the manifest.json

{
“name”: “tab”,
“version”: “1.0”,
“manifest_version”: 3,
“chrome_url_overrides”: {
“newtab”: “./tab.html”
},
“browser_specific_settings”: {
“gecko”: {
“id”: “newtab@guest271314”
}
},
“background”: {
“scripts”: [“background.js”]
}
}