Firefox 134 New Tab

[oneissueaccount]

Firefox updated to version 134 last night and the New Tab page was changed. The shortcut icons are too small and hard to navigate now. Can I revert to the old New Tab page, or do I need to reinstall version 133?

[Agentvirtuel · Accepted solution]

Hello

Try

1 - Go to Configuration Editor for Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox

2 - Enter a search term browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant

You will find
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-a
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b

Try value false

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1911653

[dglowny]

How do you make the change "stick", because even after editing the settings (which fixed it for a little while) eventually the icons went back again to being too small ... and the flag was back to true again!

[dglowny]

It seems like the flag gets flipped back to true on every relaunch of Firefox, probably as part of the "progressive rollout" logic, which undermines this attempted workaround method.

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Perhaps you are under Studies
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield
Type about:studies into your address bar to see a list of your studies.

For informational purpose to try 

user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-a", false);
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b", false);

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user.js

Go to your profile folder https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

Move user.js to your profile folder

Restart Firefox

Other information to try
Firefox policies https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates
Preferences https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/#preferences

The Enterprise Policy Generator https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enterprise-policy-generator helps to create the configuration file

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Specify user-defined preferences (about:config)

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{
  "policies": {
    "Preferences": {
      "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-a": {
        "Status": "locked",
        "Type": "boolean",
        "Value": false
      },
      "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b": {
        "Status": "locked",
        "Type": "boolean",
        "Value": false
      }
    }
  }
}

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policies.json

Then
Create the distribution folder
Move policies.json to the distribution folder
Move the distribution folder to the folder where Firefox is installed

Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-troubleshooting-information-page-fix-firefox

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Application Binary: Shows where Firefox is installed.

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Restart Firefox

Information page
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-troubleshooting-information-page-fix-firefox

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Enterprise Policies: This shows you if your browser is being managed by Windows Group Policy or a policies.json file. If enterprise policies are managing Firefox, clicking on Active will show you a list of the policies that are currently active on Firefox.

[dglowny]

Thanks, that was great info!

When I went into "about:studies", I found "Default UI Experiment - Logo in corner Rollout"  and clicked Remove.

Then I quit and re-launced Firefox, and everything was back to using the old-style bigger shortcut icons, just like it used to be before FF 134.

[oneissueaccount]

Thank you so much Agentvirtuel! Your solution worked perfectly!