Not that it really matters after this announcement, but it has always been possible to disable the suggested tiles, from the little settings gear icon on the newtab page.
But isn't this menu a bit deceptive? This is a setting menu with 2 options: disable suggested tiles, and show blank page.
Show blank page can be set from the regular options page.. while the 'disable suggested tiles' option is not in the regular options. So the only unique feature of this menu is disabling suggested tiles.
It's as if, this menu was created entirely to hide disabling suggested tiles.
They force these so called features on their users, but they don't get enough crap for it for doing so simply because they can be disabled. Most people miss the point that majority of people who use Firefox probably don't even know what tiles were to begin with. (same goes to Pocket, Hello etc.)
But isn't this menu a bit deceptive? This is a setting menu with 2 options: disable suggested tiles, and show blank page.
Show blank page can be set from the regular options page.. while the 'disable suggested tiles' option is not in the regular options. So the only unique feature of this menu is disabling suggested tiles.
It's as if, this menu was created entirely to hide disabling suggested tiles.