17 Responses

1. matt

   July 21st, 2008 at 10:55 pm

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   Deleting the entries that come up does nothing. If you go back into the address bar and start typing again everything comes up

2. Evy

   August 19th, 2008 at 2:47 am

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   I agree w/ Matt it comes back after restarting firefox even i did the Clear Private Data. I still searching solution that completely remove all the website that i had type in the address bar. Any help pls. thanks!

3. Denis

   September 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm

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   1. In the Location bar, enter about:config
   2. Search for the preference browser.urlbar.maxRichResults.
   3. Double-click the browser.urlbar.maxRichResults preference and enter a value of -1.
   4. Close Firefox.
   5. Start Firefox again.

4. sunshine

   September 10th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

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   Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

   Finally something that works!!

5. Tobias

   November 11th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

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   Wow! Just terribly confusing. Okay… Steps 1 – 5 for Mac folks:

   1. Open Google page (www.google.com)
   2. Click mouse in empty Google toolbar (all searches should come up)
   3. Drag mouse over to highlight your selection you wish deleted (do not click this selection or this will bring it into the toolbar)
   4. Press “shift”,”command” and “delete” together while selection is highlighted
   5. Your selection will be gone

   Fairly easy. KISS!! …No what I’m sayin’?

6. David

   November 23rd, 2008 at 6:32 am

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   Sunshine, you rock! Thanks so much!!!

7. gg

   February 21st, 2009 at 2:20 am

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   tobias thank you!!!

8. Eric

   March 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm

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   Denis, you are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you sir!

9. David

   March 25th, 2009 at 3:45 am

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   Thanks Denis, finally someone who knows what their doing! its about time someone post a real fix to this problem.

10. Djuan

    March 27th, 2009 at 1:43 am

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    whhhaaaaaat finally someone with an answer that works you made my day
    tks a million for some reason found that very anoying thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you …

11. Holly

    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:03 am

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    Thank you so much dennis I was getting peeved cuz there was a tracking cookie attached to a site my bf goes on and I couldn’t get rid of it so it kept coming up every time i opened firefox. He will just have to suffer and type everything in. poor baby:)

12. Bill

    June 4th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

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    The advice from Denis works but it doesn’t actually delete anything. If you go back and reset the value to 1 or whatever all the old websites will still show up once you start typing in the address bar.

    Does anyone know how to actually delete those entries? It’s annoying having to type in each address every time. I’d rather just delete the ones I don’t want to see and leave the ones I do. Is this possible?

13. Jimmy

    June 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am

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    Can’t believe Firefox has this bug and Denis is the only person to post this hack?

    Looked on loads of tech sites and they are all wrong.

14. George

    June 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 am

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    Not sure if this will work for everyone but the best way I have found is to simply delete the individual urls from your history.

    1. Ctrl + H to bring up history.
    2. History is sorted by day simply find EVERY occurence of the site you want to delete ( there is a search function ) and delete them.
    3. Ctrl + Shift + delete will bring up clear private data.
    4. Make sure everything but browsing history (and probably saved passwords) is checked.
    5. Click Clear Private Data Now.
    6. Now all of those sites should be deleted from the bar and the ones you want should still be there.

    The other method DOES NOT delete the traces of the site. Anyone who knows how to bring up the history bar . (Ctrl +H) would see all of your dirty laundry. This method should prevent that.

15. continueUM

    November 2nd, 2009 at 11:48 am

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    DENIS – YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!

16. Patrick

    December 9th, 2009 at 10:15 pm

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    This new version has really been annoying me. the address bar is acctually showing history AND bookmarks. Delete all your history and go to the bookmark tab: Organize bookmarks and go through all the folders and delete nething you dont want. This helped me get rid of the porn um… i mean sites i was using to search for gifts… yeah thats it.

    Other thing to do is click Tools: go to Options: click Privacy: on the bottom under Location bar: Click the drop down menu and just change it to history instead of History and Bookmarks… Now after a nice candlelit night by yourself you just have to clear the history and the bar will be clean. You will still have all the sites you normally visit in the drop down menu untill the times you need to wipe it.

17. alejandra

    December 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am

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    Omg Thαnsz so much!!=]