Bernie's dashboard

Bugmenot,
That worked! The address bar did allow me to navigate directly to the URL in safe mode. I reset the toolbars and controls, and it works for me now. I am relieved. No need to complain anymore.

Everybody: what looked like a rude response from me is genuinely a crazy coincidence. I wrote my post including "don't concern yourself..." BEFORE djst posted his similar comment. I was editing mine when he posted. I assure you I did not see his post when I wrote that. I'm not that much of a prick. He probably saw my post before he wrote his. It posted in the wrong order because I was editing it when djst posted. Please review the thread with the two posts reversed and it won't seem so rude.

djst: I apologize anyway because it looked rude for a whole day.

Thank you everyone.
Bernie

Yes or no please.

Can I replace the Smart Location Bar with a plain old address bar; one that does not "search", but one that executes a URL command directly just like it used to?.

Don't concern yourself with my motivation. I'm stubborn. You needlessly forced me to change the way I use my computer in order to accommodate people who don't know how to navigate. I wasn't given an option. You replaced a browser that I liked with one I don't like -period.
I will settle for re-installing the previous version of FireFox.

Your help is appreciated.
Thank you,
Bernie

QUOTE
djst wrote:
"If I type 'g' in my location bar, Google appears as the top result."

Dude, If I type "http://www.google.com" in my location bar, Google appears as the top result of a search instead of going to Google.com. It used to just go where I intended it to go, BUT NOW IT DOESN'T!

Bernie

NO!
I don't want search results, I want direct one-click navigation like every browser has forever, and how the internet was intended to be used. My homepage is Google. If I want to search Google, it is in the middle of my homepage. I want to go directly to a URL. This is a dealbreaker. I will uninstall Firefox if I can't get a fix for this.
Can you help?
Thanks,
Bernie