[Firefox Tip] Enable Hidden Secret Compact New Tab Page
While finding a way to restore Fox face icon on new tab page, I found another interesting trick to enable hidden secret compact new tab page in Mozilla Firefox.
I have tested this method in Firefox Nightly builds but I’m not sure whether it’ll work in the stable Firefox versions or not. So please test it and confirm in comments section.
Mozilla has added a built-in preference in Firefox’s advanced configuration page (about:config) to reveal a new compact new tab page which looks as following:
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You can see in the above screenshot, the website thumbnails on new tab page are smaller in size.
Following screenshots shows the default new tab page which contains larger website thumbnails:
If you also want to activate the compact new tab page in Mozilla Firefox web browser, following steps will help you:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox and type about:config in the addressbar and press Enter. It’ll show you a warning message, click on “I accept the risk!” button.
2. Now type compact in Search filter box and it’ll show some result in the window.
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3. Double-click on browser.newtabpage.compact preference and it’ll change its value to true. Alternatively, you can right-click on the preference and select Toggle option.
That’s it. Now click on new tab icon or press Ctrl+T keys together to launch new tab page and you’ll get the compact new tab page.
PS: Sometimes you may need to open new tab page 2 times to get compact new tab page.
In future if you want to restore default new tab page, set the browser.newtabpage.compact preference to False again.
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the “compact” thumbnails seem too big for me, but i cannot find way to make smaller nor add more columns (even at same size my screen could add 3 or 4 more columns {so 11 or 12})
i could envision half as much height and just 3/4ths as wide. combined with removing the left and right margins and maybe even going zero pixels between rows and columns EASILY my screen could have a wall of thumbnails (about 16 wide and 12 in height) although I’m sure I’d prefer text below thumbnails so would settle with seeing 160 web pages before i need to scroll
(currently i only see 8 columns and 5½ rows before i half to scroll. BTW: all 40 are pinned and usually used every week although a few might be used just 5-8 times a month
example, banks. i don’t pay bills every week, try to limit to 2 times a month, but if i got extra time i may check i don’t have hacker buying stuff. or forgot a bill…. so more thumbnails is a good thing