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.
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7-14-2005 @ 12:39PM
Timmah said...
You just made my day man.... Keep 'em coming!
:o)
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7-14-2005 @ 1:18PM
Bart said...
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
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7-14-2005 @ 2:15PM
VVV said...
no need to SHIFT + DELETE a right click is enoughor even just delete. That's the first thing I learned on Firefox.
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7-14-2005 @ 2:18PM
Jordan Running said...
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.
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7-14-2005 @ 10:32PM
Will said...
thats awesome, i've been trying to figure out how to do that for the last 2 weeks
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7-15-2005 @ 8:15AM
yem said...
Useful for getting all those pr0n URL's out of the URL history... :)
Someone had to say it.
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7-15-2005 @ 9:14AM
Russell Limprecht said...
Right shift delete works great.
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7-15-2005 @ 2:24PM
Hector said...
Thanks! Another annoyance to bite the dust...I guess we should all read the HELP files a little better. Stupid shift key!
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7-17-2005 @ 3:28AM
Stephen M?r said...
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.
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7-17-2005 @ 3:28AM
Stephen M?r said...
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.
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8-02-2005 @ 6:59PM
Scott Young said...
This doesn't work with Firefox 1.06 on Macs. Any suggestions? I think I've tried every key combination with delete.
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8-25-2005 @ 11:22AM
mark said...
i cannot thank you enough for pointing this out. it was one of my least favorite parts of firefox.
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8-26-2005 @ 1:11AM
foo.bar said...
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.
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11-23-2007 @ 4:44PM
Øystein Bakke Larsen said...
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?
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