On: Firefox 29

[andreis1]

Wrt the 'omnibox vs address-and-search' conundrum: why not just let the user decide in Settings, defaulting on omnibox?

[espadrine → andreis1]

The user can decide. You can remove the search bar in the customization interface.

But the default has to be to show the search bar because of contracts they have with search partners, I believe.

[chris_wot → espadrine]

No, it was always to separate search from addresses, lest search-ahead leak your data.

[pessimizer → andreis1]

Letting the user decide is so old fashioned.

[JonnieCache → andreis1]

There's an extension that gives you a chrome style omnibox. It works fine, except I can't use tab to search within sites like in chrome. If anyone knows how I can get this in FF, I'd be very appreciative.

[filmgirlcw → JonnieCache]

On Mac OS X, you can remove the search bar from the window layout and just use the URL bar as omnibar too. Sadly, you still don't get the tab to search a page domain option.