You can remove the search bar, as the address already acts as a search bar. (the "customize" menu) edit: but sometimes the separate search bar is useful eg. wh

You can remove the search bar, as the address already acts as a search bar. (the "customize" menu) edit: but sometimes the separate search bar is useful eg. when searching wikipedia instead of google? maybe it's just not your use case, I know it's not mine, I just append "wiki" to my searches, but we have to consider many different users.