Hello emmaus,

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked - but you probably already know the drill)

Type in the search bar browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.

and look for the preference  :

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesRows

and set its value to   2

Then close and restart Firefox.

my issue is not with the number of rows. changing the rows property works well, no issues there. the issue is with the number or sites per row. with the total site limit set to 12, I would get 4 sites per row if row count was 3. that was my previous configuration before the update. I want to maintain that same configuration, the site snips are moderately large and fit the screen when done that way. now they are too small, and zooming in aint gonna look nice there,

Note that Firefox should do an automatic migration if the new pref isn't set.

• https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/browser/extensions/activity-stream/bootstrap.js

  // Do a one time migration of Tiles about:newtab prefs that have been modified
  migratePref("browser.newtabpage.rows", rows => {
    // Just disable top sites if rows are not desired
    if (rows <= 0) {
      Services.prefs.setBoolPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.showTopSites", false);
    } else {
      Services.prefs.setIntPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesRows", rows);
    }
  });

  // Old activity stream topSitesCount pref showed 6 per row
  migratePref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesCount", count => {
    Services.prefs.setIntPref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesRows", Math.ceil(count / 6));

emmaus said

my issue is not with the number of rows. changing the rows property works well, no issues there. the issue is with the number or sites per row. with the total site limit set to 12, I would get 4 sites per row if row count was 3. that was my previous configuration before the update. I want to maintain that same configuration, the site snips are moderately large and fit the screen when done that way. now they are too small, and zooming in aint gonna look nice there,

'Wish you had mentioned this in your original post - I wouldn't have posted the above, but asked you to take a look at this thread instead :

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/84jaqr/firefox_60_no_longer_honors/

McCoy said

emmaus said

my issue is not with the number of rows. changing the rows property works well, no issues there. the issue is with the number or sites per row. with the total site limit set to 12, I would get 4 sites per row if row count was 3. that was my previous configuration before the update. I want to maintain that same configuration, the site snips are moderately large and fit the screen when done that way. now they are too small, and zooming in aint gonna look nice there,

'Wish you had mentioned this in your original post - I wouldn't have posted the above, but asked you to take a look at this thread instead :

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/84jaqr/firefox_60_no_longer_honors/

thanks for the reply. it seems it was intentionally removed. for now i would be using an addon to simulate how it was previously.

emmaus said

It seems it was intentionally removed. for now i would be using an addon to simulate how it was previously.

Will that be the add-on that is mentioned in the Reddit thread  ?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/?src=search

yeah, it is.

emmaus said

yeah, it is.

Thank you for letting us know - might be helpful to others  !