Stuff like this is why I continue to use Firefox.

Thanks glad to see an explanation and a good one too.

Uhm it could just search when hitting enter. No need to autosuggest.

This already work. Remove the separate search bar and you are ready to go.

If you remove the bar and press Ctrl+k you are taken to google in the current tab... not cool

But why would you press Ctrl+K if you've removed the search bar?

dude! :D

You can turn autosuggest off

And you can install Omnibar or Instantfox if you want a combined address bar and search bar.

Assign keywords to different search engines.

This lets you do queries like such:

Type "g hello" into the url bar - googles "hello"

wa integral from 0 to 1 of ln(x^4)dx - can be set to wolframalpha

w France - my wikipedia one

Or just customize the UI and remove the search bar if it bothers you so much. Right-click the toolbar in <29, click the menu button and choose "Customize" on the bottom left in >=29.