What bugs me is that Firefox will do searches by default at all. I would prefer that any search that I do is something that I explicitly choose to do. Hence, for example, should never initiate a search from the address bar.
Glad to hear I am not the only person who HATES that.
I was okay with (for example) typing “wikipedia” and having it try “wikipedia.com” and then “wikipedia.org”. But that could be done within the browser without telling Google about every typo you make.
But then it became a search function, typing “wikipedia” would likely serve up a bunch of results with the top one being an ad for wikipedia.org. Forcing me to do it again since I will be DAMNED if Google is getting ad revenue from me because my browser won’t do its effing job.