This is a short rant about the latest Firefox Release...23.0.x.
It appears that Mozilla decided to change the Address Bar functionality so that instead of always searching with a default search engine, it would search with the selected Search Bar engine. While I understand the idea it simply does not work, for my workflow. I have been dealing with it, silently cursing Mozilla for a week or so now when finally a Google search gave me a workable fix.
I installed the ad-don, Keyword Search which sets the address bar search engine and locks it. So far so good. When I type in the address bar I always get the Google search that I want. I hope this helps others.
Found the Ad-don here: http://superuser.com/questions/629530/firefox-search-behavior-changed-in-version-23-can-i-get-the-old-behavior-back
