[eitland]

Firefox awesomebar has worked nicely for me for years across linux, mac and windows installations.

I'd say you either have a seriously old oc, have something weird in your profile or you are doing something seriously wrong.

Furthermore, awesomebar lets me automatically do full text searches across titles and urls, something chrome still cannot really do (with firefox you can search a couple of fragments of the url or title and off it goes and finds it, quick.)

Furthermore, two separate boxes are the best of both worlds, both awesomebar and quick (ctrl+k)access to your preferred search engine.