Now and then I end up with web site addresses (URLs) in the history drop down menu of Firefox's address bar that I don't want to have there. The address or addresses sometimes ended up in the history because of a typing mistake, a lot of testing of a web application on a local installation of Apache, or just because I visited a site a lot. Since I often use the history function of Firefox's address bar - also known as location bar or URL bar - I clean it up now and then, and this article describes how it's done.
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Didn't work for me...guess this was a result of an auto upgrade and I don't like it.
Browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
set to 0
Sadly, this didn't work for me either. I am stuck with a seemingly random mixture of stuff in the address bar. For example, I visited the NASA website for images when I first got this computer 2 years ago, and those images.nasa.gov URL's are burned PERMANENTLY into Firefox. I can't get rid of them. Anything more recent disappears whenever I "Clear Personal Data", but those initial dozen URLs are totally indelible. Same with about 100 other URLs that I visited in the first week.
This worked great for me. I'm guessing the confusion is happening because people are using the control L function you mention, or just clicking in the address box, and then pressing the down arrow, in which case you get the addresses that match what is currently in the address bar, auto spell function? In any case, if you click the down arrow at the right of the address box to bring up the list and then press the down key, the desired result is achieved. Thanks very much!
This doesn't work for me either. It temporarily deletes the address, but if you load a new page or browser, it's right back in there.
While this tip works for Windows and Linux users, it doesn't for us Mac users, because the Delete key simply backspaces the URL one character - it doesn't erase the entry. Off to search the Goog more for a solution...
Thank you! Great to know! =)
Works a treat, thank you so much!
Thanks for this. Can anybody tell me how to get the address back if deleted in error please? thank you.
On a mac, do as described, but hold shift and press delete when the entry you want to eliminate is highlighted.
it didn't work for me either :(
worked for me. thank you.
doreen
Thanks so much! I was figuring out how to do that for a long time. Didn't know it was so simple!
Thanks! This was a problem for me as a link I used to use a lot was broken. Every time I tried the new one the old one would suggest itself.
Thanks again!
Tools / options/ privacy
Location Bar
When using location bar suggest:
Change to none.
On other options, go clean up your bookmarks and history.
It helped me... but how to delete address from address bar permanently??
thanks alot, it's so simple, but if you don't know, you don't know
If you've bookmarked the site, it won't delete. You must remove the bookmark before deleting the URL as instructed. I tried and tried, but it kept coming back. Once I deleted the bookmarked URL, however, it went away. Hooray.
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Thanks much! Can't believe how hard it was to find this trick ... many times I've tried various Google searches without luck.