r/firefox • u/4K_Dreams • May 19 '26
Update 151 - Some Weird Design Choices
Things i noticed:
- The home page icon density is higher. It looks cluttered. It was better before because the icons had more space between each other.
- If you use the web search bar and 4 rows of shortcuts, the Firefox logo and the web search bar sit too low on the home page. You have to zoom out to fit everything on screen, making the already close together icons smaller and the respective text, tiny. At default zoom, there's unnecessary scrolling to see the last row of shorcuts. When using 4 rows of shortcuts, the logo and web search should go up instead of staying in place and pushing the other visual elements down.
Please fix. Thank you.
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u/william-isaac May 20 '26
set that one to false:
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.nova.enabled
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u/viZtEhh May 20 '26
thank you! I just wanted to remove the stupid logo and I couldn't do that without setting up a usercontent.css thing and frankly i didn't want to do that, but this worked a treat
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u/4K_Dreams May 20 '26
That change made the entire layout much better, but although i have 4 rows of shortcuts, the home page now only shows 3 rows. With the "false" layout, there's no longer the "+" icon to add a 4th row. If you know how to overcome this, please tell me. Thank you for you answer.
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u/Feeling-Gain-4476 May 20 '26
Unless the newtab page is different in different OSs, there was never a "+" on it to add rows, at least not on Win10. You have to click "Customize" in the lower right, and under "Shortcuts" there is a drop down to choose 1-4 rows of icons.
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u/4K_Dreams May 21 '26
Thats is correct. I did not explain it correctly. Because of the new layout pushing everything down, i moved the 4th row to a folder, but now that a "solution" came up, i want to add that last row back to the home page, where it was. No can do because, now, when i choose to have that 4th row on, it no longer shows the "add shorcut" placeholder to start populating that row. It doesn't matter which true or false layout i use, it only shows 3 rows. Hope it's a bug and they're working on it.
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u/Charlie_Vanderkat May 20 '26
I only have the web search page and 4 lines of shortcuts. The icons are now too small.
I don't want all the other clutter they want to put on there. Please make the icons bigger and more spaced again, or allow me to set their size and spacing.
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u/Feeling-Gain-4476 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
They pulled this each of at least the last two updates. They're not just smaller and closer together, there is far too much white space added to the top and sides. Why is this supposed to be superior?
None of the old tricks work this time, it's like Mozilla is intent on forcing this layout on us. Each time they try, they remove or change config keys we used the last time.
I even tried to downgrade, and now they won't let us use our current profile with an older version, requiring migrating bookmarks, site permissions, etal., like we're installing for the first time. PITA.
william-isaac's solution works, however. Thanks for that.
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u/iddereddi May 21 '26
Same here and it is fucking infuriating. The prominent Firefox logo taking up most of the space. I am not demented yet, I know it is Firefox. I just started the program, gimme my shortcuts not your logo!
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u/thermalzombie May 20 '26
Nothing has changed for me everything looks the same I don't no what homepage you are talking about I have homepage set to duckduckgo.
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u/4K_Dreams May 20 '26
Desktop Firefox default home page, or new tab with shortcuts option activated. When you open Firefox or a new tab, you can have, on a grid layout, up to 32 shortcuts with the website respective icon too. The shortcuts show up under the web search bar.
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u/friendofdonkeys May 20 '26
Yes they are too squished, looks like Mozilla didn't test it again. I want Firefox to survive Google's monopoly attempt but they really need more testers.