Comments on: Firefox Quick Tip: How to Delete Items from Address Bar History

By: RAY

RAY — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 04:00:45 +0000

Denis, It’s 2011 and your solution worked the first try on FF. Thanks, too much BS out there, thanks for making life easier!

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:41:41 +0000

Thank you!!!!

By: Winter

Winter — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:26:20 +0000

In Firefox, Go to HISTORY menu.
Click SHOW ALL HISTORY.
Then it will show HISTORY, TAGS BOOKMARKS.
Click Bookmarks.
Go to UNSORTED BOKKMARKS. Double-click.

You’ll see all the history in your address bar.
Simply click on the site/s and press DEL / DELETE
This will delete all the history in your address bar.

By: ash

ash — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:09:02 +0000

Bill, yeah. you’re right. Denis’ suggestion didnt actually delete anything. it just hides the history and whenever i type any letter for my bookmarks..it doesnt show anything.

Does anyone know how to actually delete the history in the address bar..excluding the bookmarks.

By: sreeni

sreeni — Sun, 30 May 2010 00:22:28 +0000

Check the following tip If you want to delete history completely from your system.

Go to
Tools–>options–>privacy
Select ‘Use custom settings for HIstory’ from the drop down menu
Check remember my history and give just 10 days.
Click ok.

It will delete eveything before 10 days which can not be deleted by any other ways.
Sreeni R

By: alejandra

alejandra — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:46:28 +0000

Omg Thαnsz so much!!=]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:15:34 +0000

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.

By: continueUM

continueUM — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:48:52 +0000

DENIS – YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!

By: George

George — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:59:45 +0000

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.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:47:33 +0000

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.