1427982 - [Enhancement] Add a clear field content Button (URL, Search, other input fields) in Firefox browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252062

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Murz]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20171005094049

Steps to reproduce:

Many apps and desktop environments have 'x' buttons to clear content of input fields via  single mouse click. Very often this needed for Firefox URL bar, Search field, and sometimes - input boxes in page, but they are missed in Mozilla Firefox interface.

On Firefox below 57 there are exists many extensions that solve this problem, for example https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/xclear/ - but they are stops working on Firefox 57+

Will be good to integrate feature for clearing input fields via 'x' button in whole Firefox interface, or allow WebExtensions to do this.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to Murz from comment #0)
> URL bar

Bug 252062.

> Search field

Bug 275193.

> input boxes in page

Bug 490123.


If the location bar or search bars aren't focused, right-clicking in the middle of the text will select everything. You can then choose Delete from the context menu.

For web page fields, there's a user script:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/15838-clear-button-for-almost-every-text-input-field