Firefox 139.0.1 Update June 2025: New Tab Page Layout and Tiles Have Changed (and not in a good way...)

[UnhappyCamper]

I wish to offer some feedback on the changes to the New Tab layout, which I consider inferior to the previous layout for the following reasons:

(1) Moving the Firefox logo to the centre of the page just wastes screen real estate.

(2) The new, smaller shortcut tiles are less user-friendly (harder to read, for starters). It adds insult to injury that, courtesy of the change at (1) above, you now need to change page zoom to 90% in order to fully display the fourth shortcut row, reducing the tile size even further.

(3) The grey shadow now used to highlight a shortcut tile on mouse-over does not add value. It's distracting (and aesthetically unpleasant - to my eye, at least). Why not just leave the tiles at the size they used to be?

(4) I find the 'pin' symbols now featured in the corners of the new-style shortcut tiles to be another - worse - distraction. The tiles are so small that the pins look like asterisks, immediately giving the impression of an alert flagging up something wrong. (Personally speaking, if I've already made the effort to pin a shortcut to the New Tab page, I have no need for a pin symbol to remind me that I've done so. I doubt I'm alone in this.) Aesthetically, the pins represent unnecessary visual clutter.

In recent weeks I have read comments from others about these layout changes and also suggestions on how to get the old layout back so I know I am not alone in my antipathy towards them.

I have tried the 'about:config' trick to switch back to the old layout variant. Alas, it doesn't work on either of my PCs (Windows 10).

Would Mozilla please consider at least adding an option in Settings where the user might be given the choice to select which New Tab layout they prefer. (If such an option has been added to Settings and I have missed it, I would be very grateful for a pointer to where I might find it.)

[Agentvirtuel · Accepted solution]

Hello

Take a look at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/new-tab-page-move-the-quot-pin-quot-icon-back-down-to-the/idc-p...

About logo.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1316284
If you wish to test, browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.logowordmark.AlwaysVisible

If you wish to test, userContent.css file
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/giant-logo/m-p/89729
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-home-screen-logo/m-p/94379

[UnhappyCamper]

Thank you, Agentvirtuel!

I've now managed to remove the Firefox logo and, better again, those unsightly pushpins.