SearchLoad Options brings more than loading options for Firefox’s search bar. As announced, it lets you configure whether you want to open the search results in the active tab, a new one or in another tab but stay in the current one.

But you can also set it to clear the search bar or change your search engine to a defined default after a few seconds, which can also be handy and save you a few key strokes.

I find the interface however a little obtrusive. I would prefer to have these options in the search bar’s context menu instead of a dialog accessible only from the Search Options item it adds to the Tools menu. I would also like to see the clear search and reset search engine timeouts dismissed to about:config.