The preference browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled controls whether the application creates screenshots of visited pages which will be shown if the web page is shown in the grid of the "New Tab Page" (about:newtab) which offers the most often visited pages for fast navigation.

• Type:boolean
• Default value:true
• Exists by default:  no
• Application support: Firefox 14.0
• Status:  Active; last updated 2012-09-17
• Introduction:  Pushed to Nightly on 2012-04-13
• Bugs:  bug 726347

Values

false

The application creates screenshots of visited web pages.

true (default)

The application doesn't create screenshots of visited web pages.