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

by Ross McKillop on June 29, 2007

Firefox

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 04.17.08 at 8:08 am

    HOW DO I DELETE MY QUICK TABS

    2 Itararé 07.03.08 at 3:16 pm

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

    3 NIck 07.09.08 at 10:46 am

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

    4 selvi 10.20.08 at 5:33 am

    how can i delete website from address list?

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