Custom new tab page, tiles and redundant searchbar

I have used the custom new tab add-on for a long time. 4x4 tiles, no search bar, custom background... It was great. A million times better than the standard crap they give you. Since the last update I'm stuck with the standard new-tab page, which I hate. Plus, Google is the ONLY standard search machine available. Yes, you can use others, but not as standard. Bye bye privacy.
Let me sum up the only 2 reasons I used firefox in the first place:
1. The ability to NOT use big brother's services (Google)
2. The CUSTOMIZABLE new-tab page (4x4 tiles instead of 4x2). WITHOUT a redundant search bar.
With last update you have disabled these both. No 4x4 tiles, redundant search bar (there are now 3 search bars instead of 2. 3 times better searching eh?)... I'm done with Firefox. I don't even know why I bothered to take the time to write this.
Mozilla you suck. Every time there's good community driven thing going on, you idiots ruin it.
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These can get you started;
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

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