In recent versions of the process list, there is no way to kill several processes matching a search string. With earlier versions you could do it as follows: 1. Enter search string in the filter bar, 2. Press Ctrl+A to select all filtered processes, 3. Press Delete and confirm termination of the selected processes. Now Ctrl+A does not select processes, it always changes focus to the filter bar. Reproducible: Always
Which are "earlier versions"? I just tested Plasma 4.11.21, and Ctrl+A also just changes focus, so it does not look like a recent (Plasma 5) regression.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 335177 ***