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I'm not saying you don't need a search box, but I use the address bar as my search box. That's even the default layout in Google Chrome isn't it?
Chrome is my primary browser, but every now and then what I really miss about the two separate bars in Firefox is this use-case: 1) Select and right-click word/phrase on page 2) Select a search engine from search bar list 3) Look it up instantly on whichever search engine has focus in the search bar. In Chrome this wouldn't be possible without a form of overhead somewhere (add-on, user script, using keyboard, etc.) J…
Try using duckduckgo.com as your default search provider. If you feel like doing a search on a different search engine, you can just preface it with the appropriate ! (bang) command, e.g. !g = google, !w = wikipedia