Huh, I guess I'm old-school (though I think of Firefox as relatively "new school")? Command-K and Command-L are burned into my hands, and I find it jarring to have the address bar acting like a search box. That, the lack of an "Awesome Bar", and no multiple shortcuts for refresh made switching to Chrome nigh impossible back when it was compellingly faster than Firefox.
Did you RTFA?
"Firefox separates the address and search bars. Coming from Chrome, that sounds insane. Use Omnibar to combine the two."