Removing the New Tab Plus in FF

You may have noticed something a little different up in the tab bar in the latest release of Firefox. Something that looked a little bit like this:

Maybe like me you found yourself looking through the options to find a way to turn it off just to find that none exists. Never fear! There are two ways to remove this completely pointless button (who doesn't use ctrl+t?).

The first is best for people who really don't want to mess around with files and it's a small Firefox add-in called Remove New Tab Button. Though, for those of us that think it's silly to install an add-in just to be able to remove the button there is a way.

You can create a userChrome.css file in your profile-directory/chrome. If you are using Vista you can find this at:
C:Users{username}AppDataRoamingMozillaFirefoxProfiles{some value}.defaultchrome
If you don't already have a userChrome.css file simply copy the userChrome-example.css file and rename it to userChrome.css. Open this file up in a text editor and add the following:

/* remove New Tab button */
.tabs-newtab-button {display:none!important}

Save your file and the next time you start up Firefox the completely pointless button will be gone.