Why the focus on the search bar on the homepage and new tab automatically shifts to URL bar? I hate this. I cannot find any option to change this. Vivaldi gives us an option to decide what we want unlike Firefox.
Chrome focuses on the search bar on the new tab regardless, duckduckgo browser does same, edge does same, opera does same, Brave does same and Vivaldi does same but gives us option in the settings as in the image below. But Firefox automatically forces it. Why? Looks so cheap.
How to change this? I dont want this. I cannot see what I am typing when it shifts to smaller bar on the URL bar from the search bar.
And most importantly, I cannot change the new tab or homepage with any other search engine, like Duckduckgo or Ecosia or Brave Search, if I had any search engine addon from addon store. Chrome has no such BS show. If I am using Google, then new tab and homepage is of Google. But if I use any search, I have to suffer with underdeveloped same old FF new tab and homepage. Is this intentional or forced?
Edge is opening randomly, might be going back until this is user controlled.
This has been aggravating for SO SO LONG. I bet Mozilla will (continue to) do nothing about.
For Mozilla DO NOT USE THE ADDRESS BAR AS A SEARCH TOOL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. As others have stated this is a HUGE security risk under various circumstances and is also quite annoying when the search text moves up to the address bar. Not sure who thinks of these things!!
A search is a search An URL/Address is and address and sometimes (often these days) you want to SEARCH for a URL, not go to it.
If you feel that strongly that you need to keep it for some users. Make it a custom adjustment in CONFIG.
Your software should ALWAYS default to the safest options.
