The search window on the menu bar has become tiny. Can I restore it?

In the past few days the search bar next to the address bar on the top of the mozilla page has become tiny--not even room for one letter. If I type a letter I am immediately taken to a google search page, and whatever I'm looking for is lost. This hasn't happened in Safari, only in Firefox. So far as I know I didn't create this change.
How can I restore the old search bar?

Place the cursor between the Location bar and the Search bar, when you see the <-> , click and drag to the left to make the Search bar larger.

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