[ILUG] [Q] Customizing/disabling (or at least making secure) FireFox 13's New Tab page?

[James McBoyle]

click on the box of squares icon in the top right hand corner.

I wasted time this morning working this out as I started in the
preferences, which has nothing about it.

Jim.

On 7 June 2012 09:09, Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie> wrote:
>  Does anyone know how to turn off Firefox 13's horrible
>  New Tab page  —  the thing which used to be nice and
>  blank (empty)?  Besides being distracting, it is also
>  causing me a security concern, because it's showing
>  thumbnails of sensitive pages at times/places where
>  I don't want sensitive information to be visible!!
>
>  Opera's New Tab page is easy to configure to avoid
>  this problem, not least because Opera allows you to
>  set (select) which sites, if any, to thumbnail.
>  I have not yet found any way to customize FireFox's
>  New Tab page, albeit some websites imply there is
>  some way to set some things (but perhaps not much?).
>
>  This feature  — especially the auto-choosing of
>  which pages to thumbnail —  is so bad it must have
>  been designed by Generalissimo Google™, the company
>  notorious for Absurd Crappy GUIs.
>
> extremely annoyed,
>        -blf-
>
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