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How to selectively clear Firefox history
Firefox 3.1 or 3.5 or whatever it's called these days, includes a feature that lets you delete just some information from your web browsing history instead of clearing your entire history file in one fell swoop. All you have to do is open the history section in your bookmark library or in the "most visited" sites section in your browser toolbar, right-click on a site and select "Forget About This Site."But if you want the same functionality without upgrading to a beta version of Firefox, you can check out the Close 'n forget add-on for Firefox 2 or 3.0.
You can configure Close 'n forget to to remove cookies from a web site when you forget it. And you can even have it delete every page you've visited in a browser tab, which makes the add-on a bit more powerful than the built-in Firefox 3.5 feature.
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Ars said 8:29AM on 4-30-2009
Thanks for the tip! I was looking for a solution to selectively remove a history item from my browser and found your blog. With this stuff I've found another solution (History Killer Pro) which removes Firefox, Opera and IE8 history as well. By the way can even selectively remove items from index.dat file when you remove something from IE history :D Check yourself: http://www.hystorykillerpro.com
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Ars said 8:31AM on 4-30-2009
Thanks again :)
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