New Tab/home page improvements

[KERR]

The current Firefox homepage/new tab page is quite minimal:

I think there's an opportunity to make it look better and have functionality like the other browsers do

• Include stats about blocked ads/trackers etc - Since FF is privacy focused, why not display info from about:protections front and center instead of hiding it!
•  Wallpaper (optional please!). Maybe users could set their own or FF could randomly show some
• Calendar or other widgets. Brave shows a clock (which is kinda redundant)
• Weather (if user allows location access)
• Some Firefox feeds/ticker. You could have "Did you know"s or good news stories about what Mozilla is doing/how they're helping the world. Could also advertise Mozilla VPN or T-shirts! Kodi (used to be XBMC) has one of these tickers.

Brave's new tab page below incl number of trackers/ads blocked, bandwidth and time saved:

Kodi RSS/news ticker:

Firefox's about:protections sadly not being shown off!

[Luca_Pavan]

Some more ideas:

👉  Allow custom wallpapers
👉  Change wallpaper each (number) (seconds, minutes, hours)/at every new tab opened, plus selection of desired wallpapers to set. Probably a dropdown menu for both values is recommended
👉  ✅ No containers behind Home shortcuts (to remove the square behind the shortcut itself)
👉  For incognito mode tabs,
Load the default Home page:
- at first incognito mode execution
- always
With default incognito mode tab I mean the default info tab that's loaded when you once run the incognito mode. That window don't show Home page shortcuts so this option is meant to give users the choice between showing that default page any time or just load the usual Home page that they see when they open a new tab in the normal browsing mode.

[Tianuchka]

Hello, Mozillas!

Can You, please, provide a Mozilla Firefox user an opportunity to configure the number of the saved or visited sites of the Firefox start page? I'd like to have more then 4 rows and more then 8 columns of the saved or visited sites.
Is it possible to do?

[Jon]

@Tianuchka hey, there's a separate idea thread for that specific request here:

Firefox Home Screen Shortcuts - more rows please! 

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