That is what I'd prefer as well. I thought Firefox had taken away the ability to set the new tab page to `about:blank` but I just checked and it seems that it d

That is what I'd prefer as well. I thought Firefox had taken away the ability to set the new tab page to `about:blank` but I just checked and it seems that it does direct to there now. For a while the best I could do was to turn off all the widgets on their default "home" screen.