1128147 - New tab page, more tiles on smaller screen automatic

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P3)

Description

[private0x0a]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150130030232



Actual results:

I have screen resolution 1366x768 and only way to get more tiles on new tab page is to minimize it, but it cause that page layout is messing up.


Expected results:

Option to choose how many tiles do you want to see in new page

Comment 1

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your addons disabled):
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

And on a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

Comment 2

[private0x0a]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #1)
> Please check if the issue occurs using Firefox in safe mode (with your
> addons disabled):
> http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
> 
> And on a new, empty profile:
> http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Managing-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-
> manager

It doesn't work either, when I change number of tiles in config I don't see result until I change site size.

Comment 3

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

I think this is expected.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988459#c1

Comment 4

[private0x0a]

(In reply to Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly] from comment #3)
> I think this is expected.
> See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988459#c1

I know, but I don't think it's the best way to do it.

Comment 5

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Mistakenly filed against Firefox 38 and should be instead 38 Branch. Sorry for the spam. dkl