Firefox blank tab not blank

[Laird Heal]

When a new window is opened, with about:blank set to the page to display, that happens.

When a new tab is opened, even in that new blank window, a nice 3x3 grid of huge buttons shows, pulled from history or somewhere.

The underlying problem is getting endemic to open source: someone's great idea is so great that the implementer does not think that anyone will really be annoyed by it. Now, suppose I open a new tab and do not want the person I am showing something to to see my page viewing history, gratis, or anything but the subject at hand?

The bug is that someone forgot that the content of a new tab should really appear the same as the new window.

The effect is that I'll just switch browsers to one that doesn't have an annoying feature bundled.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Feel free to disable the feature, but for most people, the new tab page is significantly more useful than the blank page.

If that's not good enough, feel free to switch to another browser though. Chrome, Opera and Midori all have similar features