Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: Mozilla will drop an iconic section of its UI -- the search bar -- and will use one singular input bar atop the browser, similar to the approach of most Chromium browsers. This change will go live in Firefox 57, scheduled for release on November 14, and will be part of Photon -- the codename used to describe Firefox's new user interface (UI) -- also scheduled for a public release in v57. Mozilla engineers aren't removing the search bar altogether, but Firefox will hide this UI element by default. Users can still re-enable it by going to "Preferences -> Search -> Search Bar" and choosing the second option. The current Firefox search bar is redundant since most of its features can be performed by the URL address bar.

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[Anonymous Coward]

IOW, just like Opera. :-(

This is what happens when you take clueless precious little snowflakes who have been told all their lives how unique and special they are and then place them in charge of a project.

We need to identify the people responsible for these changes and make sure they are blacklisted from the next open source project they try to move onto after Firefox is no more.

Pity we didn't do that with a chap by the name of Poettering after his first project...