Comment 36 for bug 306017

I was made aware of this bug through the paper cut presentation at http://www.scribd.com/doc/31643187/Firefox-4-Paper-Cuts-Alexander-Limi-Firefox-User-Experience

and I felt the urgent need to make a suggestion here before this bug results in yet another new paper cut. A very common pattern for me is to open up a bunch of blank tabs and then fire off minor variants of a search in each. E.g. "Mozilla video crash", "Mozillia video segfault", "Mozilla video vanishes".

Making the search fully tab specific would seriously frustrate this totally reasonable use case. At a minimum I'd urge that the tab specific search retain a common _history_ with the other tabs. This way my user pattern would just gain an extra key-press.