Safari Has Gone Strange On Me

Hi All,
Before we start i would just like to say that i have only had my Macbook Pro for around 4 weeks and im very new to the apple side of things.
Im getting used to things slowly but non the less im getting there.
I have now came across a few problems and im now unsure how to fix them of sort them out.
Below you will see what version of software i am running and it was today (Fri 27th July) that i done an update and since then a few things have happened.
I have now lost the small google search tab on the top right of the address bar
Also when i open up my tabs they are taking up the length of the whole window and i now dont know why.
When i now log into any forums or websites that i use i have a window popping up asking if i want to safe usernames & passwords.
What have i done and how can i get all of this back to normal? As i say it was all fine untill there was a software update today.
Thanks

Safari 6 has changed those things as you discribed.
The Google and address bars are merged. You can type phases questions and URLs in the same bar now.
Single tab fills bar (Same as ios version - I don't like this)
RSS reader removed - They want you to use the READER button which strips background images rather than RSS
The new browser automatically asks to save passwords to built in key chain
Once installed their is no easy way back to 5.1 without a reinstall.

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