Agreed. When everyone was moving to Firefox because it was 'lighter weight', I stuck with the Mozilla suite because one of the things I liked was searching from the address bar. And this was years ago. It's ironic that the same people criticising the Mozilla browser for being 'clumsier' are now praising Chrome for being more streamlined.

IE5 had an add-in (a power toy I think) that allowed you to create a string as a shortcut to a search engine so you could type something like the following into the address field:

   g:foo

and do a google search for 'foo'.

this proofs why ui is important