How to clear Search History from Firefox Search Bar?

In Firefox, if you want to delete all your private data like search history, browsing history, cookies etc, then you can clear all of them at once by going to Tools –> Clear Private Data. Here you can delete Search History of Search box by ticking the ‘ Saved Form and Search History‘.

However with this option you will delete Form History also, i.e., all the entries that you have made into text boxes like name, contact address, email etc. You may want to avoid this as the next time you are filling a form you will have to again type in everything.

In order to delete only Search History of the Search bar without clearing any other items in Firefox, follow the steps described below. You can either clear individual items from Search History or all of them at once from the Search bar in Firefox.

How to clear ALL items from Search History?
To clear all items
1. Right click on the input field of the search box.
2. Select ‘Clear Search History‘.
Your search bar history is cleared. If Clear Search History cannot be selected, that means there are no items in your search history to clear.

How to clear only selective items from Search History?

To clear individual items from the search bar history
1. Click on the search bar input field.
2. Press the down arrow key on the keyboard to display and scroll the list of items.
3. To delete a highlighted item, press Delete on the keyboard.