What's New with Firefox 142

> For users in the United States, article recommendations on your New Tab page are now grouped into topic sections like Sports, Food, and Entertainment to make stories more organized and easier to scan. You can also follow topics you’re interested in and block ones you’d prefer not to see, giving you more control over what shows up when you open a new tab.

Ladybird cannot come fast enough…

Look, I'm with you on alternate implementations, but throwing out Firefox just because they decided to follow Edge down the "be the Yahoo of browsers" may be baby-with-the-bathwater type thing. It's painless to evict all that junk, even though I strongly agree that it should not be necessary in a browser

It's trivial to turn those off. They are in the regular preferences, you don't even have to go into about:config.

Some times they release a new enhancement to an already existing feature I have to disable the setting AGAIN.