Firefox 151 Introduces a Fresh New Look for Home & New Tab (Desktop)

[AmberMeryman]

With Firefox 151, we’re updating the design across Firefox Home and New Tab experiences. This refresh introduces a cleaner, more modern look and feel to surfaces that millions of Firefox users see every day. The updated experience is designed to feel more polished, cohesive, and visually engaging while keeping Firefox fast and easy to use. It is also the foundation for future customization features, coming soon!

Some of the updates you may notice include

• Refined layouts and spacing
• Updated visual styling and treatments
• and New wallpapers - new styles of Kit themed wallpapers, and dark mode versions of previously-light only, as noted here

If you’ve updated to Firefox 151, you’ll begin seeing these changes as they roll out. Users of all versions in all channels will be able to use the new wallpapers immediately.

Let us know what you think below!

- Amber, Firefox Desktop Product

[milio]

When I opened Firefox today I was quite disapointed to see new look. The space above firefox logo and top bar is too big and the shortcut icons are too close together. I don't mind new changes but i liked the look before and it would be great if we were able to revert to previous layout or imho have much more customization settings in terms of placment of elements on the main page. I use Firefox for as long as I can remember and I wolud be very grateful if my input on this matter would be taken into consideration.

[JustaDude]

Updated to 151.0 and now I got this terrible New Tab page.

I have 16:9 1080p resolution in my desktop and I use zoom 170% in the new tab area where I see:

- 35% empty top space

- then a big firefox logo

- then 2 rows of icon shortcuts that now are smaller with their names cut off on two rows

- finally empty spaces in the left and right 

What is happening ? every design UI change you do is in the negative from my perspective. Seriously how is this even possible, I keep coming here after major disappointments with this updates and I complain but clearly no one gives a...

Alright, mark my words this is how you will loose market share with small little upgrades that always go in the wrong way. Keep it up sooner then later people will migrate towards other options. This user here is very unhappy and just resigned.

[flsomerv]

I have a random letter "a" in the search engine selection box of the address bar.  Why is it there and how can I remove it?

https://imgur.com/BDKCeBp

[flsomerv]

I resolved this by removing my userChrome.css font adjustment.  

[Alri_firecat]

Please at least give us an option for larger icons on the New Tab page.
Additionally it would be really nice to actually have all 4 rows of shortcuts. 
(Congratulations on getting me to sign up for an account just to complain about how you've made my life more annoying.)

[Shadowblitz]

Why did the update all of a sudden make my shortcuts move really far up the screen? I now have all of this empty space at the bottom and it just looks so odd!

[mcsch]

• Excessive top padding: There is too much empty space above the search bar. This unnecessarily pushes the shortcuts block too far down the screen.

• Shortcut spacing and centering: The shortcut icons are tightly packed together and overly centered. This leaves a massive amount of empty, unused space on the sides, making the central block look disconnected and awkward on a 2k monitor.

Overall, the layout feels un-proportional and lacks visual balance. It would be great to have an option to adjust the spacing or see a more harmonious distribution of elements.

[tariel]

i dont wanna see this firefox logo on my homepage, never had to see it before but latest update forces me to

[Agentvirtuel]

You can test
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/latest-update-5-19-2026/m-p/125854/highlight/true#M49683
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/again-clean-new-tab-home-screen-please/m-p/125959/highlig...

[Agentvirtuel]

Hello

Similar requests

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-151-introduces-a-fresh-new-look-for-home-amp-new-...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1582859

Below, a test with the help of userContent.css

[paolovece]

I prefer the previous New Tab Page: there's more space between icon (shortcuts) and I use it as a speed dial. 

I reverted to the previous version. I don't need al that stuff on the new tab page, just quick links (bookmarks) to the sites I visit the most.

[Aetherdrol]

I only have the shortcut links and the searchbar in my new tab page and now all the icons are all squished together and I HATE IT. It messes with my eyes. Please let it be more spaced out!

[KitchMactual]

The OP's original supposition is fundamentally flawed.  It assumes a number of things, but the most important is that the change to the home page was an improvement when it was not so.  My actual experience with this change is that it has caused a degradation to the resolution of the layout in that it changed the size of the items, increased unnecessary and undesirable white space at the top of the page (and all around) thereby forcing a downward scroll so as to view everything, and thusly created a degradation in usability.  Such is never an improvement and actually hampers the user experience.  This was not well thought-out at all.  What is more disturbing is that this concept is so easily proved to be not beneficial, that one can reasonable question the thought processes of those who involved themselves in implementing such changes and forced these upon the millions of users.  Once again, we are faced with the need for intelligent management of programming teams.

[pendergraft_e]

So, this is going to sound a little silly. I always use Firefox at the smallest width it allows me to. This update makes it so that the home page cannot be as small in width as the minimum width of the Firefox window. 

Now there is a scroll bar at the bottom and I can only see about 60% of the page. 

I used to scroll through the recommendations on the page, but with the new update I'm not going to do that anymore.

[OneName]

The most useful feature of the new tab was demoted — it lost importance and prominence. The developers seem intent on forcing new features on users to show how clever and creative they are and to advance within the company. The process of opening a new tab and then using a shortcut to reach a webpage has been disrupted. Shortcut icons are now smaller, and you have to scroll to see the fourth row. A lot of space is wasted at the top of the new tab (above the Firefox icon and text), apparently reserved for an unnecessary weather widget. The sides are also empty while the icons are cramped into only half of the available area. It feels empty — like the good ideas in the developers’ minds. A few years ago they made a similar change, reducing shortcut icon size and stripping the new tab of attractive places to visit the web. Now they’ve done it again. What a terrible update surprise.

[KitchMactual]

**bleep** straight!  Well said.

I simply disabled the worthless (for me, anyway) weather icon because I get weather from the icon right below for WeatherUnderground that is a frequent web site.  That is the whole purpose of those rows of icons; they are places we often go and are very convenient if the home page is laid out correctly.  Like it used to be.

Just installed the FF update on my platform, but still has the stupid layout on the home page.  Bummer.

[OneName]

Disabling or enabling the weather unwanted feature doesn't move the firefox icon and text above the shortcuts. That's why they leave the unused space and forced the 4th row of the shortcuts out of the screen. And my second shortcut is meteoblue. When I want proper weather information It's there I found. Only disappointment.

[KitchMactual]

Totally understand.  It is all bizarre.

[qwerty123456]

Why is this useless field here, growing in size with every update???

[Andre-a]

After today's FF update my new tab has a huge FF logo obscuring the image.

I don't want the logo and also don't want the search bar. I want just the image.

Thanks to wonderful people at Mozilla Support (TechHorse) I was able to find the work around others here have mentioned.

BTW, there's no need to advertise your browser when I'm already a user.

Please stop messing with the simplicity I yearn for.

[lucifer25x]

Shortcuts are too small. I think it would be better if we could customize the size of shortcuts and change between the old and new hover effects (new one scales the shortcut while the old one changes background - which in IMO is much better on eyes)

[myspace]

still not sure how I'm feeling overall about the changes, might just take time getting used to. but I am enjoying the new kit wallpapers 

[GastonM]

Please remove the big FireFox logo from browser windows.  I found out how to remove from new tabs but every time I press the Home button, it reappears.  At least, give us an option to turn it off.