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

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.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:13:14 +0000

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?

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:03:05 +0000

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:)

By: Djuan

Djuan — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:43:12 +0000

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 …

By: David

David — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:45:40 +0000

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

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:59:46 +0000

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