Longtime Firefox user. I hate it now.

[LochnarITB]

Does anyone else absolutely hate the direction Firefox has headed?

Yes.

I used to be able to have the menu bar, navigation buttons, URL bar, and search field all on the same line - with bookmarks and tabs just below that for a super-compact interface. It's just not possible now, and it annoys me.

The mess confused me when it first loaded v29 (from v26). I figured out how to get to the customization they left in, but that still didn't get me where I wanted to be, especially the URL bar and the location of the tabs. I googled the issue and found an uproar over the mess they were making of it, but also found an extension called Classic Theme Restorer. It gives back movement of some of the items they locked down. I got my tabs back to sitting on each site window. I hid a bar right above them that could hold favorites and bookmarks, but I actually have all my bookmarks in a sidebar. I tested to be sure and I can have a search box next to the URL but, again, searches are in my sidebar. Anyway, with some fiddling of positions, mine is about 95% of what it had been: