How to delete individual form entries in Firefox and IE

This (very) brief tutorial will show you how to remove single entries from forms (or boxes, whatever you want to call them) from IE and Firefox. You can remove entries from things like the Google search box, email login forms etc, without having to clear all form data.

Firefox for OS X: click inside the form and use the down arrow key to bring up the list of previously ’saved’ entries. Scroll to the one you want to delete, hold down shift and hit delete.

form before

form after (notice entry #3 is gone)

Firefox for Linux: click inside the form and use the down arrow key to bring up the list of previously ’saved’ entries. Scroll to the one you want to delete and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).

Firefox for Windows: click inside the form and use the down arrow key to bring up the list of previously ’saved’ entries. Scroll to the one you want to delete and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).

Internet Exporer 6: click inside the form and use the down arrow key to bring up the list of previously ’saved’ entries. Scroll to the one you want to delete and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).

Note: if you delete a user name using this method, and there’s a saved password associated with it, IE will ask if you want to delete that password as well.

Internet Explorer 7: click inside the form and use the down arrow key to bring up the list of previously ’saved’ entries. Scroll to the one you want to delete and hit the Delete key on your keyboard (not the Backspace key).