Comments on: Selectively deleting entries from you Firefox history

By: ControlHistory

ControlHistory — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:19:24 +0000

Hi,
My company has created a product that could solve this problem. Our software, ControlHistory allows you to selectively or completely delete your history. You can download it from www.controlhistory.com. It supports
IE (ver. 6+)
Firefox (ver. 3+)
Chrome (ver. 1+)
Google Desktop Search
Many programs like MS Word, Excel, Acrobat Reader, WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. that save their history in the Registry.

You can use the software for free to view your history but to be able to delete it you need a license. The cost of a license is USD 0.99 (99 cents).

By: fregs

fregs — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:10:02 +0000

“Martin says:
December 4, 2007 at 10:03 am

Another way to do this is to delete them right in the address bar. Just hover the mouse over the entry that you want to delete and press – here it comes – wait for it – delete.”

THANKS!! :) Very useful because it works also on forms where firefox brings up previously entered stuff.

By: MacHead

MacHead — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:29:04 +0000

If you’re on a Mac like me, Shift+Delete does the same thing.

By: Firefox Freak

Firefox Freak — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:00:44 +0000

I went with Enhanced History Manager a long time ago. Simply because having a kajillion links in the history (I have mine set to 90 days) slows things down considerably.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/420

By deleting the 2000+ useless links to forums I visit during the weekend, it keeps the history neat and tidy. Not to mention it’s also great for searching your history for that link you visited a while ago and remember it having some word squirrel in the url or the title :)

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:51:51 +0000

Uh, “selectively deleting your history entries seems like something you do in adolesence”? Who are you kidding dude? Sounds like a major league porn addict (married) talking…

By: Cecil

Cecil — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:07:45 +0000

An even better way to do it would be to open history in a left sidebar, and navigate to the history item (you can arrange the list by date visited, by site, by most visited or last visited). You can just right-click on the correct entry and click Delete. But I guess your version is geekier.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:19:55 +0000

Oops .. I see that Martin already wrote that!

Moreover, If you want to delete only certain files in the cache – use “Cacheviewer” extension
( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489 )
You can search by url and delete.

EDIT: …And I just noticed that I could have just edited my previous comment :P

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:13:56 +0000

Just press delete .. use arrow keys/mouse to highlight the URL you want to delete

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:24:45 +0000

Hi netking, thanks, I am looking forward to the final release for FF3!

Martin, I just tried this and however improbable, it works. Leave it to me write a huge post on pressing delete :D

I do have notepad++ and you can batch delete lines that contain youtube for example, so you can git rid of more than one at once.

I’m just saying this to protect my post though :)

By: netking

netking — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:19:04 +0000

This will probably get easier with FF3, as the history/bookmarks will be handled by a real database, instead of flat text files…

Read more here :
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/schrep/archives/2007/11/the_story_behind_firefox_3_pla.html

Note that it will also allow better autocompletion.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:03:03 +0000

Another way to do this is to delete them right in the address bar. Just hover the mouse over the entry that you want to delete and press – here it comes – wait for it – delete.

By: in0de

in0de — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:51:49 +0000

I’m gonna love this favicon.