Restore old New Page setting AND customization completely
The new update causes a box to pop-up on the top-right corner of the browser. Before I could even read what that is, I accidentally clicked on it because that is where the website I want used to be on my old customized New Tab page. Apparently, that box suggests me to try the new New Tab configuration, and I unluckily for me, clicked yes.
Now everything is different, I tried the method to set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.aboutHome.enabled browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.enabled to false. That DID NOT WORK. Because that only restores it back to the old New Tab configuration, but not what I customized it to be. I used to have 3 * 4 webpages all pinned in the exactly order so that I could click the website I want even with my eyes closed. Now it becomes a 3*5 configuration, and the order are scrambled completely. The websites appeared in the New Tab now are not the ones I pinned, but only ordered based on the frequency I used them recently. And the some of the websites that appears in this New Tab are not what I want, so I deleted them, but the ones that I want never appear even after it run out of suggestions and become empty dashed squares.
Can't you mozilla people be a little less self-centered but more considerate as to what users really need? You designed a new New Tab configuration, so you have to show it off to everyone, huh? Do you really think we old users what your new design? Do you have any idea how much problem it causes and how much it slows the efficiency of my work? And even if you do show off your new design, that's fine if only you just make the browser keep a record of my old customized setting so that I can go back to it easily when I want. But did you?
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Hi, why not make that known here as this is just Mozilla Volunteer Support and we can not make changes or do suggestions to Firefox. To submit suggestions for new or changed features, may I suggest: Feedback: https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/
So with all that you have said you can do this : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/ Also Firefox can now be configured in millions of ways, fyi : USSER CHROME URL'S
- https://www.howtogeek.com/334716/how-to-customize-firefoxs-user-interface-with-userchrome.css/
- http://techdows.com/2017/09/classic-theme-restorer-userchrome-css-modify-firefox-57-photon-ui.html
- https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/1
- https://www.accessfirefox.org/Theme-Font-Size-Changer.php
- https://www.userchrome.org/
- https://www.accessfirefox.org/Firefox_Accessibility_Themes.php
- https://www.userchrome.org/what-is-userchrome-css.html
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
- https://github.com/axydavid/FirefoxUI/blob/master/README.md
- https://github.com/wilfredwee/photon-australis
- https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
Note not all code in one place.
Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.
Hi Meng23, your lists of pinned and blocked new tab page tiles (for the old design) are stored in the prefs.js setting file in your active profile folder. Do you make any backups of your system that might contain a copy of that file?
Is it possible your Firefox ran a Refresh -- do you see an Old Firefox Data folder on your desktop?
Assuming not...
Depending on how long you think it would take you to re-pin what you want, you could investigate possible "shadow copies" of the file that Windows makes when you install Windows updates. That's probably at least a 20 minute project. Let me know if you want the steps.