User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1 In FF 3.6.16 and earlier, what I typed into the search bar would only show up in the search bar for that tab. In FF 3.6.17 and FF 4.0 this seems to have been changed. Now it feels like the location and search bars are global. The recent move to put the tabs above the location bar seems in conflict with this decision. Is the location bar part of the tab, or isn't it? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Type into the search bar. Don't press enter. 2. Switch tabs. Actual Results: New tab continues to show what you typed in. Expected Results: Search bar should now be empty. When switching back to the previous tab the search bar should again be populated.

(In reply to comment #0) > In FF 3.6.16 and earlier, what I typed into the search bar would only show > up in the search bar for that tab. > > In FF 3.6.17 and FF 4.0 this seems to have been changed. Now it feels like > the location and search bars are global. The search bar behavior hasn't changed between any of these releases, for what it's worth (it currently is and always has been global). Perhaps you had an addon that was causing a change in behavior?