1940558 - The add shortcuts option in new tab is not shown under specific conditions.

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P2)

Description

[vsn]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox should either be freshly installed or a new profile should be created.

Remove the default shortcuts already present.

Uncheck the option to show sponsored shortcuts while leaving the option to show shortcuts checked.

Actual results:

The add shortcuts option in new tab is missing when show sponsored shortcuts option is unchecked. Its visibility seems to be dependent on the sponsored shortcuts option.

Expected results:

The add shortcuts button should not be missing in new tab unless that option has been unselected.

Comment 1

[vsn]

(In reply to vsn from comment #0)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox should either be freshly installed or a new profile should be created.
Remove the default shortcuts already present.
Uncheck the option to show sponsored shortcuts while leaving the option to show shortcuts checked.

Actual results:

The add shortcuts option in new tab is missing when show sponsored shortcuts option is unchecked. Its visibility seems to be dependent on the sponsored shortcuts option.

Expected results:

The add shortcuts button should not be missing in new tab unless that option has been unselected.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::New Tab Page' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[Nathan Barrett [:nbarrett]]

Triage reasoning:

• Severity: -- → S3: Work around exists for this issue
• Priority: -- → P2: Fix in the next release (Nightly + 2) cycle

Comment 4

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop Test Engineering [:atrif]]

Hello! I can reproduce this with Firefox 135.0 and 136.0a1 (2025-01-29) on Windows 10x64 and macOS 12. It seems that the behavior was changed with bug 1877465. I will set it as the regressor since a new shortcut can be added after removing all shortcuts. Feel free to remove it if you feel otherwise. Thank you!

Comment 5

[Tom Schuster (MoCo)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1m709zk/for_the_life_of_me_i_cant_figure_out_how_to_get/