The websites that appear in this bar, do they have a star next to them?

No.. Forgot to add that I cleared by bookmarks too..

The Reset Firefox feature can fix many issues by restoring Firefox to its factory default state while saving your essential information. Note: This will cause you to lose any Extensions, Open websites, and some Preferences.

To Reset Firefox do the following:

1. Go to Firefox > Help > Troubleshooting Information.
2. Click the "Reset Firefox" button.
3. Firefox will close and reset. After Firefox is done, it will show a window with the information that is imported. Click Finish.
4. Firefox will open with all factory defaults applied.

Further information can be found in the Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings article.

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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
• https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file

No unfortunately they're still there having tried to reset it...!

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Here's a screen shot... I typed in 'e' having cleared history again, and now it came up with easyjet.com...

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Note that a reset tries to import the history and thus a reset may not be suited in case of history problems that you have.
You can either try to delete all places files in the profile folder or create a new profile with the Profile Manager.

Thanks for the suggestion cor-el, but it won't let me delete the places files in the profile folder. It says that it is in use by another program. I access it by going Help --> Troubleshooting Information --> Profile Folder

Is there another way to do it?

Drag Places to the Trash. Quit Firefox. Empty Trash. That should work. It just worked for me after I got the same "in use" message.

I have the same problem. For as long as I can remember, whenever I cleared all my history, the location bar search history always fully cleared. (Except for bookmarks, which I like.)

Now I cannot get it to clear, no matter what I try. (And I have tried the suggestions posted here.)

What's been changed in recent upgrades????

I also have this problem. I ran the places maintenance addon in "Locked or damaged places.sqlite" mentioned above. But it did not help. Here's the file:

Places Maintenance, all options.  Dec. 28, 2013. 
> Integrity check
+ The database is sane
> Reindex
+ The database has been reindexed
> Orphans expiration
+ Database cleaned up
> Coherence check
+ The database is coherent
> Vacuum
Initial database size is 10240 KiB
+ The database has been vacuumed
Final database size is 10240 KiB
> Statistics
Database size is 10240 KiB
user_version is 23
page_size is 32768
cache_size is -2048
journal_mode is wal
synchronous is 1
History can store a maximum of 80485 unique pages
Table moz_places has 202 records
Table moz_historyvisits has 49 records
Table moz_inputhistory has 0 records
Table moz_hosts has 139 records
Table moz_bookmarks has 194 records
Table moz_bookmarks_roots has 5 records
Table moz_keywords has 0 records
Table sqlite_sequence has 0 records
Table moz_favicons has 112 records
Table moz_anno_attributes has 8 records
Table moz_annos has 122 records
Table moz_items_annos has 118 records
Table sqlite_stat1 has 14 records
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_inputhistory_1
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_hosts_1
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_bookmarks_roots_1
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_keywords_1
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_favicons_1
Index sqlite_autoindex_moz_anno_attributes_1
Index moz_places_faviconindex
Index moz_places_hostindex
Index moz_places_visitcount
Index moz_places_frecencyindex
Index moz_places_lastvisitdateindex
Index moz_historyvisits_placedateindex
Index moz_historyvisits_fromindex
Index moz_historyvisits_dateindex
Index moz_bookmarks_itemindex
Index moz_bookmarks_parentindex
Index moz_bookmarks_itemlastmodifiedindex
Index moz_places_url_uniqueindex
Index moz_places_guid_uniqueindex
Index moz_bookmarks_guid_uniqueindex
Index moz_annos_placeattributeindex
Index moz_items_annos_itemattributeindex

I also ran CHKDSK.

I had the same problem, I guess it's a bug. After going through all the usual solutions it still didn't work. So I just reinstalled Firefox and it got resolved.