Cindy Claveau

The newest update for Firefox adds a new feature. Whenever I click on the "new tab" tab, I see 9 big square icons for the last 9 websites I've visited.

I can see how some people might like this, but honestly I know how to use bookmarks and history well enough this is just annoying to me.

I did a bit of Googling and can't find a way to turn it off. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Seven Paragorn

When you make a new tab and you see those icons, there's a little button at the top right of the screen(looks like nine little squares arranged in a grid). If you click it they get turned off.

Amelia E

All I can say is, why, oh why, is Firefox imitating IE, the crappiest browser ever?

Seven Paragorn

I had no idea IE did that, I don't ever use it so I don't really know much about IE to be honest. I don't think the history icons in the new tab is a bad idea really, kind of handy even. If you tend to check on the same couple websites on a regular basis like me.

Sansarya

Chrome does that, too. I like it because it's easier to see and click the big webpage icon than to try to find it in a long list of bookmarks and click that, and it keeps track of which websites I visit most often.

Cindy Claveau

Thank you!

Like I said, it could possibly have its uses, but I HATE it when computer software pretends to second guess what I'm going to do next. The first thing I do with a new word processor or Android app is to disable Autocomplete. And in Word, it's a pain chasing down all the different automated crap it tries to do that implies it's smarter than you.

YES I can spell.

YES I know how to capitalize.

YES I is smart!

Amelia E

It is, unfortunately, the only browser allowed on my work computer. I'm all to familiar with IE in all its *sarcasm tag* GLORY.

Morgoth

Personally I love this feature, after using Chrome for a bit, I was so used to having it that I installed a script to mimic that behaviour for firefox when I returned to firefox. Glad to see they made it part of the interface.

Cindy Claveau

That was one of the wonderful parts of quitting my old corporate job and becoming self-employed. I own my own PCs now and I decide what to use.

IE is banned from my office!

Cristiano

They aren't imitating IE. Several browsers, including Chrome, do the same thing.

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Gabriell Anatra

It is often easier to identify a site this way than via an often incomprehensible URL, but as implemented in Chrome/Chromium it's also a lot more limited in that the sites I most often want to identify are much more likely to have scrolled off the end of the stack.

Dolly

I found the thread title a bit misleading, as this feature was added with the jump from Firefox 12 to 13, not 13 to 13.01 ... but personally, I am not bothered by it in the least. If displaying the previews of those recently visited pages took any noticeable amount of time or slowed the browser down, then it would bother me - fortunately it does not.

Joshua Nightshade

Chrome does it, I fucking loathe it. Previously you were able to turn it off but they've eliminated that ability two or so updates ago. Because obviously that's a great idea.

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Cincia Singh

In my Chrome (19.0.1084.56) I have a choice of the big icons for my last visited web sites OR for apps I have installed in Chrome. I don't use this "feature" but it's just there until I click a bookmark so no big deal.

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Amelia E

Ah, thanks, didn't know that. All I'm familiar with is the IE I'm forced to use at work, and Firefox I use at home.

Walker

It's not. It's imitating Chrome. Just like IE imitated Chrome when it did the same. I've got a feeling there are differences in the IE implementation as well though. Chrome either displays thumbnails for the eight most visited sites or installed apps. I set it to the former because I find it very useful. It renders instantly when the new tab button is clicked so not a problem. I noticed that Firefox isn't so 'instant' at rendering that new tab page... and it bugged the shit out of me.

ETA: I know I know. I should read to the end of the damn thread before responding. Sorry!

Soen Eber

My experience with Chrome has been that it becomes too easy to only hit your top sites. Its rather limiting if you don't exercise some discipline

Cristiano

Ayu Sura

Firefox is buggy for me now, especially with videos. I just got a new machine and I can't do dev testing on FF because it's somehow broken. I have to use FF on my home machine to do it. No idea why.

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Dolly

Have you considered creating a new Firefox profile? Video issues also sound like a possible problem with the Flash player...

sluniverse_member

If you are annoyed then why not using the Private browsing with ffx.
That would not save your history.

Evola

I generally use Opera, but saw this posted elsewhere: Firefox 'new tab' feature exposes users' secured info: Fix promised ? The Register