Firefox 36.0 search menu UI disaster - analysis and solution

Geez, who came up with that new design of the Firefox search menu and WHY? I can't come up with any reasonable reason why this design would be a good thing.


Luckily, there is a way to change back to the original functionality:

go to  about:config
set  browser.search.showOneOffButtons  to  false

( Tip taken from here: How to disable the new One-Click Search Bar in Firefox )

 

 

 Analysis

The old interface was a simple drop-down menu with a list of all the possible search engines (= all