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Browser Tip of the Day: How to delete individual URLs from Firefox's history
I rely on Firefox's History to keep my most frequently-accessed web sites available at a keypress. I can type any letter into the address bar and immediately choose among my favorite web sites whose URLs start with that letter. That's not the tip; read on. Unfortunately, the History gets polluted sometimes -- somehow a web site I have no interest in visiting frequently will find its way to the top of the list for some letter I use often, which really chafes me. For some reason I've ever been convinced that there's no way to delete individual URLs from the History without just clearing the whole thing. Turns out I was wrong. In Firefox, if you want to delete an individual entry from the History, just highlight it (either in the History sidebar or in the address bar drop-down) and press Shift+Delete. Gone, never to bother you again!
Maybe this is news to nobody but me (indeed, it's right there in Help), but I'm just thrilled about it.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsHectorJul 15th 2005 2:24PM
Thanks! Another annoyance to bite the dust...I guess we should all read the HELP files a little better. Stupid shift key!
TimmahJul 14th 2005 12:39PM
You just made my day man.... Keep 'em coming!
:o)
markAug 25th 2005 11:22AM
i cannot thank you enough for pointing this out. it was one of my least favorite parts of firefox.
WillJul 14th 2005 10:32PM
thats awesome, i've been trying to figure out how to do that for the last 2 weeks
BartJul 14th 2005 1:18PM
Nice! I wish it was an option to display the main adress first, instead of others, eg. www.adress.com, but not www.adress.com/subsite
VVVJul 14th 2005 2:15PM
no need to SHIFT + DELETE a right click is enoughor even just delete. That's the first thing I learned on Firefox.
Jordan RunningJul 14th 2005 2:18PM
VVV, though you can right-click on items in the History sidebar, right-clicking on a URL in the address bar drop-down will open the URL rather than popping up the context menu.
yemJul 15th 2005 8:15AM
Useful for getting all those pr0n URL's out of the URL history... :)
Someone had to say it.
Stephen M?rJul 17th 2005 3:28AM
Wow amazing.
apparently this also works in type in fields.
At my gmail login screen i had a bunch of bad type-ins that stayd with me. again, just select one in the dropdown list and press shift+delete.
sweet.
Stephen M?rJul 17th 2005 3:28AM
Wow amazing.
apparently this also works in type in fields.
At my gmail login screen i had a bunch of bad type-ins that stayd with me. again, just select one in the dropdown list and press shift+delete.
sweet.
Russell LimprechtJul 15th 2005 9:14AM
Right shift delete works great.
Scott YoungAug 2nd 2005 6:59PM
This doesn't work with Firefox 1.06 on Macs. Any suggestions? I think I've tried every key combination with delete.
foo.barAug 26th 2005 1:11AM
this tip doesn't work in the history sidebar for me (Firefox 1.0.6 on XP). left-clicking on an entry opens the page. you can just right-click on an entry and then select Delete from the contextual menu.
Øystein Bakke LarsenNov 23rd 2007 4:44PM
Today I figured out firefox is grouping elements in the history, but I don't know why it is done, as it is only on one computer. Grouping elements is a nice thing; deleting the entire "facebook.com" from history.
Anybody who know how to make firefox group elements?