Firefox Tip: Delete One Item From History
Do you want to delete one item from your browsing history? Say that splash page, or misspelled site that you keep visiting when ever you type a URL with a similar name because you type to quickly? Gogle instead of Google? It happens. Just select it by entering the partial name in the URL bar, and press shift delete. That will remove only that one entry from history.
Want to remove that memory of the time you forgot to put on pants before you left the house? Sorry, that feature hasn’t been implemented in Firefox just yet. Perhaps in the next version. Patches welcome.
Tags: firefox, history, Mozilla, Tip
May 22nd, 2007 at 4:19 am
As of Firefox 2, delete works by itself. (unfortunately, it’s currently broken on trunk for the URL bar.)
- Chris
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:14 am
Nice one….i like this…and so will the rest of the household. Tjhanks a lot man.
May 27th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
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May 29th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Another common issue I have with the firefox locationbar is starting to type a website name say: “robert.acc” and tada your website pops up from my history, but oh **** the last thing in my history was a particular blog entry, say /archives/2007/05/21/firefox-tip-delete-one-item-from-history/ but I would rather go to the toplevel page. If I frequently link to your blog from a RSS reader, then most of my history would be populated with specific entries. It would be nice to have the top entry be the toplevel page. And while we are at it lets autocomplete inline so you can just hit type ‘robert.acc’ and hit enter. Lets also autocomplete bookmarks.
It is called .
May 29th, 2007 at 1:48 am
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2300
May 31st, 2007 at 3:15 am
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July 6th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Thanks for this tip! I recently stayed at a hotel and used their wireless. “Online by Lodgenet” was showing up every time I started typing some of my commonly visited URL’s and it was annoying the heck out of me. Thanks again!!!
December 29th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Thanks for the tip