A quick google (or whatever) search reveals a way to change that behaviour in Firefox back to what it used to be. Admittedly, this should be fixable via the GUI, but don't let search engines or about:config intimidate you...

I'm actually for having both the search bar and the address bar. I just want to have the option to have only the address bar and use it the way I have used it for some years, where I can use keywords to create searches. Still, if people want the search bar, then fine; I wouldn't want it removed. The point is, I actually hate this dumbing down of the GUI where you can't customise it (thanks, Google...). The poster above yours is just as inflexible as the "fucktards" he/she is lambasting against; same coin different side...

Yet another button and mouse click, though. I have my search bar set up to accept key words to run search terms through various search engines and other sites. Basically the keyword brings up a bookmarked URL string, adding the search term to the end of it, then sending it. If I send an address to the address bar (IP or URL), it sends me to that address. If I put "w border collie" in the address bar, it makes a search link to Wikipedia for the term "border collie". I have many other search keywords for various things. It's better for me to do it this way than to use the search bar, and far more flexible... and quicker to change. Still, I don't object to the search bar, many seem to want it (like yourself), but I'd like the opportunity to remove it for my usage.

Yes. And that makes it a horrible horrible UI mistake. Search and URL are two very different things and should never ever be entered from the same UI element.

Well, I suppose if you have OCD or something like that, then you'd be disturbed by such a combination. The rest of us are flexible enough to recognise its benefits. First thing I do with a new install is remove the search bar, create relevant keyword searches, etc.

You got it. It's designer-driven change for change's sake. The same problem as Gnome with Gnome3 and the same problem that MS have with Windows 8. Changes that nobody wants or needs - except bored designers.

Add to the list some bored Firefox designers and the upcoming Australis, the design to protect users from themselves. You can have customisation, but not the way you want it...

Try Ctrl+F1

Hmm... this genetic mutation could also be used to explain how the humans in Planet of the Apes became like animals.

It's a fucking morbid fairy tale meant to control primitive people.

Yeah, it's a death cult.

BTW, in the first few hundred years of Christianity, more people died in the in-fighting than from Roman persecution. Yeah, a peaceful religion indeed...

They're already at the finish line.

seriously. who gives a fuck?

I imagine his relatives for a start...

The Westboro story is elsewhere.

Batteries matter.

...for us about some space bypass or something. Seems important for some reason.

In the same way that sheep are seeking the slaughterhouse?

Yeah, but zero votes for? I mean, not one in favour? Sure, if only 10% were in favour, then that'd be a valid argument, but zero for and 19,000 against? Its extreme one-sidedness is answer enough.