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Firefox 60 New Tab, downgraded to "Old Style Firefox New Tab"

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loganj
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This https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1183898#answer-1026506 use to work. It seems that browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled is a string tyoe now or missing. I'm not sure which is true because i have 2 profiles: in one profile (a very old profile) i had this setting set to false but for some reason after upgrading from 59.0.3 to 60 the new tab page is reverted back to the new freaking ugly style which i hate is sooooooooooooooo much. the other profile (created 1 month ago) seems to have no browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled in about:config.

Anyway, how the hell do i revert to the old new tab page? the old style is soooooooooo perfect. Also how do i increase the rows on the new tab (old style)? i know i had that answer a while back while searching the internet but i can't find it anymore

For the developers of firefox: this new tab is ugly. if you feel so proud of it so be it but add an option to revert back to old style.

This https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1183898#answer-1026506 use to work. It seems that browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled is a string tyoe now or missing. I'm not sure which is true because i have 2 profiles: in one profile (a very old profile) i had this setting set to false but for some reason after upgrading from 59.0.3 to 60 the new tab page is reverted back to the new freaking ugly style which i hate is sooooooooooooooo much. the other profile (created 1 month ago) seems to have no browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled in about:config. Anyway, how the hell do i revert to the old new tab page? the old style is soooooooooo perfect. Also how do i increase the rows on the new tab (old style)? i know i had that answer a while back while searching the internet but i can't find it anymore For the developers of firefox: this new tab is ugly. if you feel so proud of it so be it but add an option to revert back to old style.

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Scribe
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Hi, sorry but the preference to use the old version has been removed. To increase the number of thumbnail rows; type about:config into the address bar, press Enter, accept the warning, scroll down the alphabetical list to browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesRows then right click > Modify to change the number to e.g. 3. To reduce the number of tiles in a row; scroll down to browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enableWideLayout and double click on it to change 'Value' from True to False.

Alternatively, you can use the add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

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loganj
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that extension is pathetic. has nothing to do with the old version of new tab. Is there any way for the new tab ugly style to increase the icon size?