Deleting Auto Complete URL or Item/Entry in FireFox Address/Search Bar/Text Field

If you use Firefox regularly, overtime you’ll accumulate auto-complete suggestions and url history which are misspelled words or incorrectly typed email addresses. It’s easy to clear ALL auto-complete information, but I’ve been looking for a way to delete a single auto-complete suggestion or URL from the Firefox history (such as an invalid or mistyped url). Last night I finally found the solution (I’m not sure why I never tried this before, it’s certainly straight forward enough)

If you want to delete a single item / entry (or URL) from:

• Firefox’s Address Bar History
• Firefox’s Search Bar (on the top right)
• Firefox’s Text Field Auto-complete (within any web page)

…Simply start typing as you normally would, when it start to give auto-complete suggestions you can use the arrow keys to highlight the entry to you want to delete. Once highlighted, press the delete key and it will delete the single entry. (If for some reason that doesn’t work try Shift+Delete, but you shouldn’t need to)

Now you can clear out the 50 misspellings of your email address you have to see every time a form is filled out.