This is a quick update on this topic. Following one of the many FF updates in recent months I noticed my new tab page was back to the old settings. The first few tabs I had saved were still there, but the columns and rows were not right.
I put up with it for a while not having the time to scour the web to find out why. My frustration with this recently forced a search and here’s what I discovered. The tab layout, in my case 5 columns x 4 rows, was still there. The problem is the geniuses at FF decided to ignore that and set the view zoom on a new tab to zoomed in. Zooming a new tab page out 3 or 4 steps restored all of my tabs. The fix for this seems to be in the about:config setting browser.newtab.preload which I had set to true. Changing this to false fixed the page zoom issue.
Happy browsing!
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