CHANGE BACK TO OLD 3 WIDE SUGGESTED ARTICLES FROM 2 WIDE WASTED SPACE IN VERSION 151
I mistakenly agreed to update Firefox to V 151.02. Once again I regret it but there is no way to turn off the stupid prompt windows telling to you to update.
Now when i open a new tab , the wasted space on my COMPUTER screen is incredible. Instead of the old format withm3 wide "columns" of suggested stories/articles it is now one prominent, and a narrow list of only two wide. requiring me to scroll down twice as far as I used to. I have large white blank unused screen space being wasted. It seems to be optimized for only people who use their narrow phone screens only in portrait mode.
I hate the random useless changes that affect my normal everyday usage of the browser, without any options to go back to old formats or settings.
I am actually thinking of switching to EDGE, or Chrome on my Windows computers.
Wish Mitchel was still my student as I would vocalize my complaint directly to them. But that was back in the days when it was a responsive community .org. Not the now privatized for profit entity that Mozilla has become.
As i had to create another useless account just to submit any sort of feedback, watch as I get constant useless emails with no relevance to anything in my life, as all i wanted was a simple way to make my screen the same as it was for the past versions
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TRAPEZECDN, yes there is a new New Tab page. For more information see here: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-151-introduces-a-fresh-new-look-for-home-amp-new-tab/td-p/125715
You can at present revert back to the previous New Tab page by going to about:config, searching for "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.nova.enabled" and setting it to false.
But the developers are listening to feedback at the above link, so it might be worth posting yours there if you wanted to.
Modified by TechHorse
The link I had already glanced at that thread. Nothing to my specific query that could be easily found amongst the hundreds of posts
as for the reverting back? the Firefox "about" from the help drop down menu offers no selection to config. quickly looked to see anything in firefox settings etc to see anything about config and nothing, so I personally (limited knowledge) have no idea where to do this config change? Are talking about the config editor in windows? which version? would need more details to attempt that.
Vivaldi looking like a possible alternative. Libre?
The fact that as soon as I have chosen to update Firefox in the past, that immediately or the next day the warning window always pops up with yet another update to be loaded.... never a moments peace to just use the damn software/browser. Always something else being asked of us, to download, alter, subscribe, create, try
Hello
About, updates. As far as i'm concerned, i choose my favorable moment to perform the updates. I use, DisableAppUpdate https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/upgrade-notification-spam/m-p/64080/highlight/true#M22529
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