I don’t know how many times already I’ve had to remove this, and now nothing seems to work anymore. Setting browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabLayouts.variant-b to false should work, I guess, but it doesn’t.
Edit: shishka_b0b has posted a solution (as for enlarging the quick link icons, I forgot the simplest solution - zooming in the page)
You can get rid of it pretty easily with a
userContent.cssfile. This is the only CSS rule you’ll need in there:.logo-and-wordmark { display: none !important; }And here’s a good link that explains how to use custom CSS in firefox if you’re not familiar with it already.
Edit: setting
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.logowordmark.alwaysVisibleto false might do the trick alsoThe CSS solution worked, thank you! And that guide was useful, now I’ll have to toy with the CSS elsewhere too… :D
(The config you mention in the edit doesn’t seem to work, however.)
Ok people hate what I am about to do when asking for help (and for. Good reason), but… Why? Why are you caring about what is in a new tab?
Edit: to try and be helpful: you could remove the logo from the source code and compile it your self. Or you could create a custom css template (I think).
Why are you caring about what is in a new tab?
You’re making it sound like “new tab” isn’t a thing one uses a lot? I have a bunch of shortcuts there and it’s stupid that area that could be used on them is wasted on something so useless. Admittedly this variant is better than the previous attempts to force the logo there that I had reverted (twice), because those were really dogshit - reducing the size of the shortcuts and/or pushing them down outside of the screen - and now at least everything fits on one screen, and the shortcuts are less reduced, though they used to be bigger.
Actually I guess I want to revert to the old style entirely. Big shortcuts, no logo (or an easily removable logo).
you could remove the logo from the source code and compile it your self. Or you could create a custom css template (I think)
Sadly I’m not competent enough to do either of these, I have no idea how CSS could affect this or be applied, and removing it from the source and recompiling sounds like killing a fly with a cannon.
Well at least we are narrowing down the issue! I thought you didn’t like it when a tab had the logo in it when it was a new tab. But you mean the short cut screen right?
I never really see mine I always just open where I left off. I will have to take a look.
But you mean the short cut screen right?
I mean the default new tab, with the logo, search bar (which I removed because I can just search from the URL bar), and the quick links that automatically get populated with your most visited sites.
Btw an another user posted a solution, turns out removing it through CSS isn’t that complicated (when a stranger provides you with the code, at least).
Some alternative options: there are many many new tab page extensions you could try for a different look/layout, or you could put together your own basic html page of shortcuts and set it as your new tab page.
I tried out one of the extensions (Tabliss) the last time they forefully changed the new tab orgnisation, and it seemed pretty good, but it loaded somewhat slower than the built-in new tab, so I’d really prefer to just modify the default new tab instead of switching…
Maybe I could try making my own html and see how that works.
What OS are you using?
Windows 10
I remember when I was you enough to completely customize win 3.11 so it didn’t look anything like stock and did everything the way I want. Now I find most of my PCs have the default ‘just installed the os’ after years of service. I support your effort but get nothing but a nostalgic chuckle.
