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How to delete an individual site from the address bar's list of previously viewed sites in Firefox

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This (very) brief tutorial will show you how to delete sites from your Firefox address bar, without having to clear them all. Though this may be common knowledge to many of you, I did a quick poll of my semi-technical friends and more than half of them didn’t even know you could do it.

Firefox for Linux: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).

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Firefox for OS X: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, hold down the shift key and hit delete.

Firefox for Windows: use the drop-down button in your address bar, scroll to the site you wish to delete, and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).

Note: this will only remove it from the address bar drop-down list – not your browsing history.

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  1. alecia d rakes says

    HOW DO I DELETE MY QUICK TABS

  2. Itararé says

    Como eliminar um determinado site da barra de endereços da lista de sites visitados anteriormente no Internet Explorer

  3. NIck says

    I do this but they come back! does anybody have a cure please?

  4. selvi says

    how can i delete website from address list?

  5. Hisa says

    Gente! Adorei a informação. Deu certinho. Obrigada

  6. jake says

    this does not work for windows. it deletes at first, but then reappears whenever you try it again

  7. Francisco Ribeiro da Silva Junior says

    Tentei de todas as maneiras possiveis (pressionando Shift + delete) mas não deu certo depois de excluidos ao clicar para abrir os endereços, surpresa lá estão todos eles de volta, o que e como fazer para exclui-los de vez.

  8. Ken says

    It works permanently on my Windows Vista (soon to be Linux Mint 7). A blinding flash of the obvious – once someone has pointed it out to you. Thanks!

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