User blog comment:Toughpigs/Create a new article - feature update launching next week/@comment-10370-20100330182435

It's done! The code was released this morning. You should now see an option in Preferences, under the Editing tab: "Disable Create Page pop-up".

So I'm sorry that it took so long to get the change up on the site. I'm glad it's up now, and I hope that it helps the people who were bothered by the pop-up. Thanks again for the feedback and thanks for being patient.