Holy cow, yes. I switched to FF a while back, and your description of the behavior alone raised my blood pressure. They way return automatically opens whatever the first suggestion is immensely frustrating. The way hitting `return` is literally a race condition against how quickly the autocomplete returns its results.
There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.
There are some things I miss about Safari, but the search bar behavior is not one of them.