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This extension will do that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/super-start/ And then see this: http://www.enjoyfreeware.org/superstart/customize http://www.enjoyfreeware.org/superstart/faq

I am not sure whether you need the tiles or just are not yet aware of Firefox's many bookmarks features. Many people have hundreds or even thousands of Bookmarks, and tiles of bookmarks squares on a single page will not cope with that. Note the newtab page often will hold 6 to 12 tiles. For use of and customisation of that see these articles * [[About Tiles in New Tab]] ** [[Customize the New Tab page]] **[[Hide or display Tiles in New Tab]] The bookmarks may be displayed from the dropdown bookmarks icon list, the sidebar or the bookmarks Library/manager. You have already discovered the bookmarks toolbar, and should note that will overflow to the side edge and open on a single mouseclick, and that the you may use folders, that then become dropdown menus. Some of the help articles include short video clips and animations * [[Create bookmarks to save your favorite webpages]] * [[Bookmarks Toolbar - Display your favorite websites at the top of the Firefox window]] * [[Use bookmark folders to organize your bookmarks]] *[[Awesome Bar - Search your Firefox bookmarks, history and tabs from the address bar#w_changing-results-on-the-fly]]'''_changing-results-on-the-fly'''

Guys, many thanks to you both for awesome info.

You are welcome. Firefox has lost of features and is very customisable. It may take a while to find all the relevant features and decide what you need to use.