I have the opposite need. Each card is 3 lines tall, if they were 2 lines the number of cards on screen would increase by 50% (not counting borders and margins).The point is cards allow better use of widescreen monitors but some level of easily acces...
This, to me, is a prerequisite to synchronizing my tabs with mobile. Most of my pinned tabs live inside a specific container. Not to mention the fact that some of them use different logins on the same website.