How to Delete a URL from Firefox 3 Smart Location Bar
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Firefox 3 has the new way of tracking URLs visited from Firefox with its Smart Location Bar. In case you made a typo while entering the URL, the Smart Location Bar will still remember the URL and show it when you type something related to this. This could be annoying many times, if the typo is of one or 2 letters. You can always delete a URL from the Smart Location Bar with this simple step.
Next time you encounter a wrongly typed URL in the Firefox location bar and you want to remove it from the location bar, then highlight the URL using mouse and press DEL (SHIFT+DEL also works) button on your keyboard and that it, the URL will be deleted.
NB: This tip works with Firefox 2 as well.
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Nice tip Nirmal. I recently started using FF3. Every time i log into gmail , i select the option “Remember me”. But every time it asks me to enter the password again. The same happens with all the websites. Do i need to change any setting ?
Great find nirmal, i didn’t knew that.
Thants a good tip, it works. That awesome bar is an annoying feature for me.
I didn’t know SHIFT+DEL also works…What is the different with DEL only?
This don’t work for me what gives? In fact, no combination of del plus anything that I can think of works. How annoying!
Thanks for the tip. I actually tried hitting DEL before, may be I didn’t highlight the url earlier.
Great tip, but unfortunately I’ve noticed that ones I have bookmarked just keep coming back. Arrrg… a little glitchy, but still good.
This also works on form fields. I mistyped a login name on a page once and Firefox kept track of it. Highlight, press DEL or Shift-DEL and it’s gone.