262609 - Usability: Simplify default UI by combining address bar and search bar

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 242268

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Aquino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 StumbleUpon/1.998
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 StumbleUpon/1.998

With the default Firefox UI's separate address bar and search bar, the user is
forced to decide which text field to type into every time she wants to do a
search or type in a URL. I have compassion on the poor user, who now must make
an additional 100-200 unnecessary decisions each day.

For simplicity, how about if Firefox does what MyIE2/Maxthon does by having a
single text field for URLs and searches; that is:

1. Setting the default keyword.URL to a normal Google search
2. Dropping the search bar from the default UI setup

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This will probably be marked WONTFIX. The two bars aren't confusing to me.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

It has been decided that this is undesirable.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242268 ***