Showing bookmarks in new tab in firefox

I would like to enable Firefox to show only my bookmarks as tiles I open a new tab. I don't want it to show tiled snapshots of the past sites I have visited which is the current default behaviour.

I find this would be much more convenient than having a bookmarks toolbar, which takes up some of my screen space.

Solution 1:

Migrated from Chrome to Firefox and I was scared not to have my bookmarks shown on a new tab. Good lord, the same extension is available on Firefox too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/humble-new-tab/

Solution 2:

Update

Currently using Firefox 61.0.1, the old methods no longer exist/work. Now you can either add them manually or use Highlights.

If you choose to use Top Sites, you can add your own sites, pin them, and dismiss the ones you don't want to see.

You can also set the number of rows you want (1 or 2 rows) in Firefox's options.

For Highlights, you can just have Bookmarks checked but it will only update once you add new bookmarks. It will not pull any old bookmarks so you'll have to add them again.

Outdated

Yes, you can do this.

You can either change the new tab page itself

You can set the value of the pref browser.newtab.url using about:config to chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul

or

Drag the bookmarks you want to the tiles.