Clear AutoComplete DropDown Entries in Firefox

Contributed by MickeyMouse August 30, 2006  
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.

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