Comment 50 for bug 382626

reaction to this change has been almost universally negative. Please give the button back, or teach nautilus to save the toggle state as it was previously set, on subsequent window openings.

as has been said over and over, Ctrl + L is not an acceptable answer. it is not a toggle, it is either right handed in right-control capable environments (try using r-ctrl in virtual box for instance), or both handed (which is even worse). the "Go" menu option is equally annoying, involving 3 clicks to do what 1 did.

see the discussion going on here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1430803