269219 - previous search terms cannot be deleted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241774

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Geoffrey Creighton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In IE (!), as in Firefox, you can use the "down" arrow to view your previous
search terms in the Google search bar. 

In IE, if you want to eliminate those old search terms, you just highlight it
and hit the "delete" key.

Firefox should allow this also.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. From Firefox/Google search page, in the search bar, use "down" arrow to view
old search terms.
2. Having highlighted an old search term, hit the "delete" or "backspace" key.
3. Nothing happens. Old entry should vaporize, please.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Deleted the old search term.

Comment 1

[gavin long]

Workaround: use "shift-delete" instead of just "delete"

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is intentional as to not interfere with the location bar "delete".
Shift-Del is the option you are looking for. For reasons why, see bug 171605
comment 24.

That behaviour was since changed however, so bug 241774 is what you want I assume.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241774 ***