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A way to have less topsites.

RatElemental
RatElemental
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In firefox 60.0.1 for desktop it seems that the amount of topsites per row has increased from 6 to 8. While I'm sure many people enjoyed this change I have no need for quite so many pins, and would like to revert this particular change.

However, a quick search though about:config turned up no variables I could fiddle with to do so. Is there a way in the current version to do this, or am I just out of luck?

In firefox 60.0.1 for desktop it seems that the amount of topsites per row has increased from 6 to 8. While I'm sure many people enjoyed this change I have no need for quite so many pins, and would like to revert this particular change. However, a quick search though about:config turned up no variables I could fiddle with to do so. Is there a way in the current version to do this, or am I just out of luck?

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the-edmeister
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There is a pref in about:config page to set the number of rows, but no pref for the number of columns.

  • browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesRows


New Tab Tools provides the means to set the number of columns. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

RatElemental
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Addon only? Guess it'll have to do.

Scribe
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Hi, to reduce the number of tiles in a row; in about:config scroll down to browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enableWideLayout and double click on it to change 'Value' from True to False.

Alternatively, you can try an extension such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

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the-edmeister
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Scribe said

Hi, to reduce the number of tiles in a row; in about:config scroll down to browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enableWideLayout and double click on it to change 'Value' from True to False.

Good - goes from 8 wide down to 6 wide for me when set to false.