Not happening for me with php 5.6.15
Tried search in Modules manager as per screen cast
Tried search in Extensions Manage as per
https://issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/8641Tried search in Article manager as per
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/8421The search box cleared as expected.each time.
System Information
Setting Value
PHP Built On Linux info 3.0 #1337 SMP Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 CEST 2000 all GNU/Linux
Database Version 5.1.73-log
Database Collation latin1_general_ci
PHP Version 5.6.15
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.4.8 Stable [ Ember ] 24-December-2015 19:30 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Could it be a combination of php 5.6.15 and a specific database version that Joomla fails to react with correctly ?
or
Perhaps a php setting that is different on the server that I use ?