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Here's some free web design advice, Google: I'm not on my iPhone or iPad all the time. Show me some links if I have the room - it doesn't have to even be all of them.
For those checking google.com to see update, you might have to wait. It'll be rolled out gradually over the next couple of weeks. http://insidesearch.blogspot.ca/2013/09/updating-google-bar-... It would be nice to see that mentioned in the TechCrunch article, though.
You don't have to wait if you go to google.com, paste this into your dev console (Ctrl+Shift+J in Chrome) and hit enter: document.cookie="PREF=ID=e66a207a51ceefd8:U=936bafc98b2a9121:FF=0:LD=en:NR=10:CR=2:TM=1378808351:LM=1379592992:SG=1:S=OXyq0fqClYB66VuV ; path=/; domain=google.com";window.location.reload();
I like parts of this but don't understand the addition of the google search box in the new tab page. Isn't one of the big "innovations" of the chrome UI the unified address bar you can search from? I use chrome as my primary browser and every time I use firefox or IE the first thought that comes to mind when I open them is, "What's the point of the separate search box, why not search in the address bar like chrome?"…
>why not search in the address bar like chrome In Firefox at least, I've learned that the regexp isn't as fast if you type a search query in the URL bar. It takes slightly longer for the browser to decide if the text is a URL or not. That's why I reenabled the search bar in Firefox (it's not required).
I had the same problem which forced me to enable the search bar. But I've since discovered that if the text you entered into the search bar starts with a "?" character, Firefox immediately assumes it is a search query.