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.
Good tip! But how do you remove them all at once?
Hi Steve, if you want to clear all autocomplete entries you can go to Options > Clear Recent History (this is for FF 3.5+, otherwise it's found somewhere in the general options). Then you can select "Everything" under the dropdown and expand the details to only select "Form & Search History". The default selection will clear all cookies, cache, etc in addition to the autocomplete data, so be sure to select what you want first.
Wicked!
That worked great until I tried to apply the same technique for addresses with the http:// prefix. Do you have a solution for that?
Thanks!
wow, I can't believe I never tried that before. Thank you soooo much, I had a couple of urls that were killing me!
Thank you for this, so useful and simple once known, thank you for taking the time to post!