I think I filed a bug on this a while back. Don't know if it the same problem you are describing, but it prevented me from aranging BTF the way I wanted without producing those two little arrows, and it pinpoints the regression down to the day.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251659

so, where do you have the search bar in there? or you go to google?

I don't need the search bar. I've never found a real use for it, since I only use two search engines. I mainly use Google.com to search (although I could just as well use the address bar for that, since I've set it up to perform a standard google search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky).

The other search engine I use is dictionary.dom. For that, I use bookmark keywords for other search engines. For example, I can type "word dilettanteism" to lookup dictionary.com for the word dilettanteism.

Oh, and I use the bookmark keyword "bug" for Bugzilla too. Bookmark keywords rule!

"since I've set it up to perform a standard google search instead of I'm Feeling Lucky"

that is nice ... how did you do it?

kwanbis,

Just saw this at http://www.squarefree.com/archives/000570.html and thought of you :-)

"By default, Firefox uses "I'm Feeling Lucky" for non-URLs typed into its address bar. You can change the behavior by going to about:config and setting keyword.URL to the appropriate URL."

I'm Feeling Lucky http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&btnI=&q=
Browse By Name http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=
Google search http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=

How did you set up the dictionary.com bookmark to immediately perform the search? I'm sure I'm just overlooking how this is done.

exelent! thnks

Woo, I'm not alone on this. I worked around it by placing a flexible space right after my Bookmark Toolbar Items, which seems to set everything back into order.

i honestly don't care for google--too many ads, or searches that turn up stores and more ads. why decide for everyone what their favorite search engine will be? dogpile is superior, anyway

"How did you set up the dictionary.com bookmark to immediately perform the search?"

See:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/bookmarks/
http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/keyword_searching.html

Basically, in the specially formed bookmark, you add a keyword you want to use. The URLs explain it better.

I use the Compact Menu extension to collapse the File, Edit, etc menus into a single icon. This gives me the URLbar, search bar and compact menu icon on one line, and the bookmarks toolbar on the second.