Aaaargh! Mac People! Aaaargh! (Reprise)

This is the Green Room points out that Mountain Lion's Safari will have a unified address bar.
Just the one bar.
No separate bars for URL and Search....

And now, back to the "Reprise" part.  Back in 2009, I tried to figure out how I could make Safari act as if it had just the one bar, and promptly got yelled at by - seemingly - half the fanboys on the intertubes.  I expect to see a parcel of posts (is that the collective noun? Lipton?) saying either "Brilliant! Apple does it again" and variations thereof...

The original post below in all its misery...

Consider the situation.

You are trying to do something on your macintosh. Doesnt matter what.  Something.  You just can't figure out how to do it, so you ask....

At this point, the road bifurcates.

The road more traveled (i.e., the way the rest of the  world - and clearly, the way any sane person - does it)  :  You get a response saying "Ah, just do blah blah blah..." or "You can't do that. Sorry mate..."

The road traveled by Apple Fanboys (i.e, you want to do something different.  Quel Horreur!) : You get about 38 responses saying "Why do you want to do that?"  "Oh, thats not a smart thing to do!"  "Don't do that!", "Nobody does that!", etc., etc.

What is it with Mac people?  

I *dont* want to use the Search Bar in Safari.  

Really. 

I..Just..Dont..

I want it to work the way Firefox works - type in your query in the URL bar, and google searches it for you.  Is that so difficult to comprehend?  Ye Gods, you would think I'd suggested that one have sexual congress with an Eggplant.

Instead, I get a bajillion replies saying "Firefox does it wrong", "Use the Search bar", etc., etc.

Also, a few saying "Let me know if you get an answer", but mostly just implying that what I want to do is wrong.