Hi Thank you for your question about searching the web from the default new tab page in Firefox. The preference you had set was not a standard setting and was unsupported. As part of forthcoming work to improve the new tab search experience, that preference has been withdrawn as we understand it was only being used by a small part of the user population. We welcome your feedback on this matter at our [https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/please-use-the-searchbox-but-not-the-address-bar-in-new-tabs/idi-p/4720 feedback site] where your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.