Not really; Safari with the 6.0 update is markedly similar to Chrome. There's few differences left in all of the browsers. Most are homogenous with overlapping feature sets. Yeah, sure, Firefox has the advantage of extensions, Chrome has the advantage of Google's great services and webapps, and Safari has the plus of being bundled with every Mac, but in the long term, they're all the same thing.
The missing search box is enough to confuse my mom. Safari has a search and address bar, in Chrome they're the same thing. My mom would ask where the search box disappeared to. I guess it's possible to set Chrome to have a separate search box, though. I've never tried it so I'm not sure.
There's no search bar in Safari anymore; the search and path bars are the same thing, just like Chrome.
My grandmother didn't have much of a problem with it, all I had to do was tell her they both do the same thing now. She uses the iPad more but only because of the advantages of direct manipulation versus the small touchpad of the Chromebook.
