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Learn how to stop Firefox from showing sponsored websites in your shortcuts row on the start page.

I use Firefox regularly on my Mac alongside Google Chrome and Safari. I particularly use it to watch YouTube and other streaming services as its native Picture and Picture implementation is the best, when compared to other browsers.

By default, Firefox shows my recently or frequently visited websites on the start page for quick access. But I have customized it to show my most-used websites, like YouTube, Gmail, iDB, and iLoveIMG, in one row (as seen in the image above). However, a while back, I started noticing new websites like SkyScanner appearing in this row with a little ‘Sponsored‘ label.

I’m all for Firefox making money. Unlike Microsoft Edge, Brave, and countless other browsers, it isn’t built on Chromium, so it offers a genuinely independent alternative to Chrome. This gives me more choice, which is worth supporting.

But at the same time, I don’t want my curated row of apps to get an unwanted entry after pushing my added website out of view.

If you think along the same lines, here’s how to stop sponsored websites from showing on your Firefox start page.

Block sponsored website shortcuts on the Firefox start page

1. Open Firefox on your Mac or PC.
2. Click the hamburger menu icon in the top right corner and select Settings.
3. Select Home and startup in the left sidebar. You can also click the pencil customize icon in the bottom right corner of the start page and select ‘Manage more settings’ to jump directly to this screen.
4. Scroll down to the Firefox Home section and turn off “Sponsored Shortcuts” to stop seeing ads pushed to your shortcuts row on the browser start page.

From this screen, you can also turn off “Sponsored Stories” to stop seeing paid articles and news content in the stories section that shows just under the website shortcuts row.

Or, just turn off the “Support Firefox” toggle to disable both sponsored shortcuts and stories in one go.

I’m so thankful that Firefox offers an easy way to turn these off, as you saw above. But if you ever change your mind and think seeing sponsored websites could help you discover something new, just follow the steps above again and turn on the “Sponsored Shortcuts” switch.

In case you want to see more websites on the start page, click the dropdown menu for “Shortcuts” and select 2, 3, or 4 rows. And if you don’t want to see your added or frequently visited websites, simply turn off the “Shortcuts” switch.

More on Firefox:

• How to turn off AI features in Firefox on iOS and computer
• How to use iCloud Passwords in Firefox on Mac
• How to export Apple iCloud passwords to Chrome, Edge, or Firefox

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/07/16/block-sponsored-shortcuts-firefox/

Find out how to save one, a few, or all photos and videos from a shared iCloud album to your iPhone, iPad, and Mac in just a few quick steps.

iCloud shared albums is not a new feature, but iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 have made some changes to it, with the notable one being that unless you use iCloud Photos (Apple’s native photo backup service), you cannot create permanent shared albums. Instead, you can only create temporary iCloud shared albums that auto-delete after 30 days.

So, if your family member, friend, or other acquaintance adds you as a member/participant of such a shared temporary album, you must act quickly and save those pictures and videos to your own device within 30 days. If you fail to do that, you’ll no longer have access to those shared media, and you may have to ask the original sharer to re-share them with you.

Note that the steps to save photos and videos from both a temporary and a permanent shared iCloud album are the same.

Save all photos from a shared iCloud album

iPhone or iPad

1) Open the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad running iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 (currently both are in beta).

2) Scroll down the Collections tab and tap a Shared Album. Temporary albums show a little timer icon in the upper left corner.

3) Once you’re inside the shared album, tap the three-dot menu icon at the top and select Save All Shared Items. This will save all photos and videos from the saved album to your iPhone photo library. If you have already saved some of the items, tap Save Remaining (N) instead.

4) You can view all these items in the “Recently Saved” section of your Photos app or find them in your main photo library.

Mac

1) Open the Photos app on your Mac running the latest version of macOS.

2) Select a shared album from the left sidebar.

3) Click to select one photo in the album, then press Command + A to select them all. Once all photos have a blue highlight around them, follow one of the steps below:

• Control-click or right-click on the selected item and choose ‘Save to Library.’

• Click File in the top menu bar and choose Export > Export N Photos or Export Unmodified Originals For N Photos.

• Click Image in the top menu bar and select Save N Shared Photos.

Select and save photos from a shared iCloud album

iPhone or iPad

1) Go to the shared album as shown above.

2) Tap the Select button at the top.

3) Mark all the images you want to download.

4) Tap Save to Library (N).

Mac

1) Go to the shared album as explained in the earlier heading.

2) Press and hold the Command key and select one or more photos and videos.

3) Control-click on the selected item and click Save to Library. You can also use the File > Export or Image > Save options from the top menu bar.

Save one photo from the shared iCloud album

iPhone or iPad

1) Go inside the shared album and tap a photo or video to view it in full screen.

2) Tap the save icon, as shown in the screenshot below.

Mac

Open a photo or just select one. Then, Control-click and save to library.

Once you have saved the items to your photo library, they will stay there even if the original sharer has deleted them from the shared iCloud album or the album has expired automatically after 30 days.

Also, check out: How to see all your ID card photos in one place on iPhone

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/07/15/save-photos-icloud-shared-album/