diff --git a/htroot/env/templates/header.template b/htroot/env/templates/header.template
index 7f8aaf1e5..cac55eaa6 100644
--- a/htroot/env/templates/header.template
+++ b/htroot/env/templates/header.template
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 		yconf = {
 			url      : ' ',
 			global   : true,
-			width    : 500,			
+			width    : 500,	
+			height   : 600,			
 			theme    : 'start',
 			title    : 'YaCy Widget',
 			load_js  : false,
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
 		<form id="ysearch" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="yacysearch.html"><p>
 			<input name="query" id="yquery" class="fancy" type="text" size="20" maxlength="80" value=""/>
 			<input type="hidden" name="verify" value="ifexist" />
-			<input type="hidden" name="maximumRecords" value="20" />
+			<input type="hidden" name="maximumRecords" value="10" />
 			<input type="hidden" name="resource" value="local" />
 			<input type="hidden" name="urlmaskfilter" value=".*" />
 			<input type="hidden" name="prefermaskfilter" value="" />
diff --git a/htroot/js/yacyinteractive.js b/htroot/js/yacyinteractive.js
index 6faab7818..bc274fbd3 100644
--- a/htroot/js/yacyinteractive.js
+++ b/htroot/js/yacyinteractive.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ function search(query) {
     else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
     }
-    self.xmlHttpReq.open('GET', "yacysearch.json?verify=false&resource=local&maximumRecords=100&nav=topics&query=" + query, true);
+    self.xmlHttpReq.open('GET', "yacysearch.json?verify=false&resource=local&maximumRecords=30&nav=none&query=" + query, true);
     self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
     self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
         if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function updatepage(str) {
   var topics = navget(navigation, "topics");
   
   var html = "<span id=\"resCounter\" style=\"display: inline;\">total results = " + totalResults;
-  if (topics.length > 0) {
+  if (topics && topics.length > 0) {
     var topwords = "";
     for (var i = 0; i < topics.elements.length; i++) {
         topwords += "<a href=\"yacyinteractive.html?query=" + firstChannel.searchTerms + "+" + topics.elements[i].name + "\">" + topics.elements[i].name + "</a> ";