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

[KitchMactual]

Well, just got the latest update, and must assume it is the promised one.  However, when I select to open a new tab, I am greeted with the same old worthless layout.

Just another disappointment.  So sad the programmers can't get it right.

[YeOldNerd]

Still in 152: why does the search box have a fixed position from the top, instead of centered vertically? In a small window it goes out of sight. On a large windows it way too high? It used to be centered.

[StevenCee]

I like having a selection of current "stories" on the new tab page. However, I sure do with there was some way to exclude those behind paywalls that I have no subscription for! It's a real waste of time clicking on stories, only to find I can't read them, without first subscribing.  And phooey on those outlets who won't even let users read a few articles, before having to decide if we want to subscribe or not.  What kind of bogus marketing strategy is that? We should subscribe to a site before reading any of their articles? Makes no sense, and Firefox should allow us a way to exclude those sites. Currently there's only an option to "Dismiss" the actual article icon, which is pretty pointless, for I can simply not click on any articles I'm not interested in. The Dismiss option, should dismiss that site from showing up on my new tab page.

[KitchMactual]

I got another update today, but sadly the same disfunctional layout issues still exist.

[JustaDude]

Week after week, update after update and we still have the terrible New Tab page:

- 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

@AmberMeryman hey, what happened with that fix update ? you said a week or two, well we are closing in on a month and no progress.