User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070310 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-2) The search box should be cleared afer submit (IMHO). This will increase the privacy, (I don't want everybody near my screen knows what I was searching a while ago) an this would also avoid clipboard overwriting problems (if you have selection and clipboard synced). Reproducible: Always

This is a duplicate of a WONTFIX bug. I think there may be some sense in making this an option, or there could be an extension made for that.

Yup, there are extensions that will do this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=search+clear&status=4

None of them works with >=2.0. Anyway, I found this one [1] which works great. Thanks. [1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1172