Is there a way to remove the add box under the google searchbar on the "mozilla firefox start page" ?

I always liked the standard google start page for firefox, but with this new 4.0 there's an ugly add box below the search bar, nagging about "learn about all the cool things" or something named "Spark" or all sorts of other spam.
So is there a way to remove that, or do I really have to change my start page to the normal boring www.google.com ?

Add code to [http://kb.mozillazine.org/userContent.css userContent.css]
<pre><nowiki>@-moz-document url("about:home") {
#contentContainer { display:none!important; }
}</nowiki></pre>
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration
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