It more or less resets the browser to a state where it was when you installed it for the first time on your system. Resetting will also provide them with options to import another browser's browsing history and settings again into the Firefox browser. The idea behind the change is to make sure that users do not run into any "old" issues when they start Firefox. If you are not using a Firefox profile for at least 60 days, you will receive a notification on the next start of the web browser that provides you with an option to reset the browser. I have already reported about this some days ago. An Alternative to that is the search add-on Hugo which provides similar capabilities. You can use it to search across all open tabs in Firefox. One of the first add-ons to implement the functionality is FindBar Tweaks which I have reviewed previously.
Mozilla has not implemented a switch or option to the browser to restore the old functionality, and it seems that the organization is not willed to do so citing that this is better left to add-on developers. While that is useful for some users who only want to search in a single tab, it breaks the workflow of users who have used the feature to search in multiple tabs (one after the other). From Firefox 25 on, this has changed so that the bar is only displayed in the tab it has been opened it.
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