Would you firefox devs please stop showing my browsing history everytime I open a new tab?

Like seriously, all that talk about how secure this browser is and then, BANG!!! You show my recent history in 9 nice big tiles, completely ruining what you strive for. Please just dump this stupid feature.
Pretty please.

You can set the browser.newtab.url pref on the about:config page to about:blank or another website if you do not want the default about:newtab page.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config
See this article about the New Tab page (about:newtab):
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites
You can create these Boolean prefs on the about:config page via the right-click context menu to prevent Firefox from generating thumbnails for the about:newtab page.
*name: browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled with value: true
*name: pageThumbs.enabled with value: false
Delete the thumbnails folder in the Firefox profile folder to remove already stored web page thumbnails.

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I formated my HD and instaled everything again, and I still have the same problem
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You can check for issues with the new tab page setting.
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config

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