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 and drop them in a tile on the about:newtab page to pin them and have your own favorites sites showing.

Changes made manually on the about:newtab page are stored in prefs that you can find on the about:config page and if necessary you can reset these prefs via the right-click context menu.

• 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.
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

See also Customize your Firefox New Tab page

Thanks, but this doesn't solve this.

What do you have set as your start page?

The default Firefox home page / start page (about:home) doesn't have a feature to "pin" pages.

Hi, I think you may be referring to the Windows 8 Start Page, in which case please see How to Pin Firefox Web Apps to Windows 8 Start Screen.

If your question is resolved by this or another answer, please take a minute to let us know. Thank you.

jerseyd said

how can i pin a frequently used website to my start page

Edmeister,

Thanks.

I do have "The default Firefox home page / start page (about:home)". Any way I can still pin a website?

No, there is no feature to pin a tab to the home page, but you can have multiple home pages that will open on startup.

See this KB article to learn how - How to set the home page

The down side to doing that is, when you click the Home button on the toolbar when Firefox is already open one existing tab that is open (the one that has focus) will reload with the first "home page" and other new tabs will open with the subsequent home pages you have set.

Edmeister,

On my home page screen I have 7 boxes of sites that I have pinned. 1 is empty and sites that I visit fiil the box but I don't want them pinned. How do I pin a site there that I want?

Thanks.

Please provide a screenshot. You can use the Browse ... button to upload it to this thread.

"On my home page screen I have 7 boxes of sites ..." Almost sounds like you are using the about:newtab page as your home page, which has "tiles" with borders to enclose them.

Yes Edmeister,

It seems that I'm using about:newtab. But I didn't download the add-on. It just started naturally. But I can't control what site goes in a vacant tile once I unpin one.

Read the support page about how the newtab page works. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites

Edmeister,

It still doesn't tell me how I can choose and put in the site that I want in a tile.

Ex. I want to put

http://www.accuweather.com/

in my 8th tile. How?

How are you trying to "pin" Accuweather?

From the new tab "top" / "suggested" history? IOW, a tile that is already on the new tab page. Or, from a bookmark?

If one way doesn't work, try the other.

I can pin it on the tab "top".

I can't get it to go to the tile on the start page.

Save that Accuweather page as a bookmark and then "pin" that bookmark to the new tab page as shown in the instructions.

Edmeister, Thanks for all your time and efforts.

But I think there's no way to do what I want.