Comment 69 for bug 306017

I wholeheartedly disagree. Whenever you click or Ctrl+K into the searchbar, it selects all the text anyway. Text remaining there is a non-issue, but strict loss of functionality (loss of the ability to repeat searches) is.

This would cause the same problem as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537013 but worse.