OK OK WE'RE STOPPING IT ASAP!!!bold text

I have used Firefox in all it's iterations including Netscape. I have ridden out all the ups and downs, mistakes and winners. This is my first public complaint. Stop the URL Bar (a.k.a. NOT Awesome bar) from being the default search bar. It is ridiculous and dangerous, and too small, and not helpful and u.s.w. The handoff from the center page to it is distracting and overall I dislike the heck out of it. Give us the Option. It is why we choose FF in the first place. I continue to use FF even though tons of companies want you to switch to use their sites. I refuse and continue to find tweaks and hacks to keep it working on FF. I believe in this browser and if I had a tree of money, I would shower it's leaves on FF and the community. Anyway, that's all. Fix it please. Thanks from an really really really old guy wanting a simple unbroken browser.

I've said above that we're bringing it back.

Mozilla will restore the browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.improvesearch.handoffToAwesomebar preference that can be set to "false" in abut:config in a future update. This will most likely happen in Firefox version 149 (currently in Beta) or possibly in a Firefox 148 dot release. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2017049 for more information.