Today ubuntu software center asked me to update things as usual, and I accepted.
But now when I open a new tab in firefox, it shows 9 'mini pages' taken from the history of visited pages.
How can I remove that? Does it have something to do with the 'ubuntu firefox modifications' addon?
There is another way if you want to get rid of it permanently. If you are happy with Matt2's solution there is no need to do so. I wanted remove it totally, because the mouse gestures provide by the extension All-in-one Gestures don't work on new tabs with the new startpage (by the way, I think its official name is new tab page).
Enter this address to the location bar and confirm that you will be careful:
about:config
Search for the preference with name:
browser.newtab.url
Update: you can set browser.newtabpage.enabled (Step 2) to False (Step 3) instead of changing browser.newtab.url.
Double click to modify and set the value to
about:blank
or
about:startpage
if you prefer to see your own startpage (set its url in the standard preferences dialog).
Close the window, you're done!
