Clear AutoComplete DropDown Entries in Firefox
Contributed by MickeyMouse 
Tagged: Mozilla Firefox In firefox, clearing the autocomplete dropdown entries (also known as the typed URL history) is not difficult once you know how to do it. Here is a brief tutorial showing how to do it.
The autocomplete dropdown entries in firefox is directly linked to firefox’s history of web pages visited. If you clear the firefox history, you also will clear this typed url history.
1. Open Firefox
2. Click the Tools Menu
3. Click Clear Private Data
4. Make sure that at least Browsing History is selected
5. Click the Clear Private Data Now button
Your dropdown entries will be gone!
The directions for clearing the autocomplete history in IE can be found here.
An excellent program called Anti Tracks will also do this automaticaly for you. The plugins allow you to clear your windows, IE, Mozilla, Office, and google histories automatically. Download a 15 day trial here.
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MrSato said on February 11, 2009
This doesn’t work. Maybe it is because of a version difference, but when I “clear private data”, and check everything, I can still see everything in the drop down… including after a restart.
Rob said on May 1, 2009
didn’t work for Firefox for mac sorry
Stephanie said on May 18, 2009
Not so I have tried a few times now and the Mozilla Firefox drop down many is still there and I have the browsing box checked
Stephanie said on May 18, 2009
Works fine for IE, but not on Firefox, are there better instructions that work ?
D said on August 24, 2009
4 should be ‘Saved Form and Search History’