[0x006A]

Why remove config options and force some UI that clearly people are not happy with? I can not type in a url without showing the most visited sites? At least let me press ctrl-l or click in the url bar and start typing before showing me helpful information, trying to enter a new URL, I really do not want to see the most common sites again and again and again and again!

Is Firefox trying to kill the long tail of the internet and get everyone to just visit the top 5 sites?

[Wowfunhappy]

"Why remove [the] config [option]" is easily answered in this case. When Mozilla changed the address bar, they also rewrote a lot of overall address bar code, and the old about:config flag activated the old code pathway—it wasn't just a simple design tweak. You don't want to have all that old code sticking around in Firefox.

What we need is a new flag that changes the design specifically.

[nojito]

>some UI that clearly people are not happy with?

Because swinging and appeasing the vocal minority is not sustainable.

[jimmaswell]

UI teams universally think they know better than all the users they force their "improvements" onto.