Remove Wrong Firefox Auto-suggest text February 23, 2007
Posted by Carthik in snippets, ubuntu.trackback
I found the solution to another long standing gripe I had with Firefox – if you mistype a url once in the url bar, the ‘fox remembers it for a long long time. So I’d type “ubintu” once, and then, each time I type “ubu”, firefox autocompletes the url with “ubintu….” which is very annoying.
Lifehacker tells me that I delete those annoying typos using Shift+Delete. So the next time the bugger pops up, I will delete ubintu.wordpress.com! It also works for form text entry fields.
I am sure more than a few readers would be as glad as I was when I read about this 🙂
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Made me as glad as you are 🙂
Me too… Only issue I have now (though that seems to happen outside Fx too) is that I can’t press Ctrl+A to select everything, though I recently found out I can press Ctrl+/
Although I am a long-term Firefox-User since Phoenix came out, I realised this method about half a year ago. God, I was happy to discover it 🙂
Awesome. I’ve been annoyed by that for a long time.
Thanks, Ubuntonista.
This nifty trick will save me a boatload of aggravation in the long run. I really appreciate your passing this information along to the Ubunt-o-sphere.
I’m pretty sure someone is going to squat over ubintu.wordpress.com 😛
This has been bugging me forever, thanks a bunch.
So it was useful to you folks – glad to know that! 🙂
awesome tip.
Cool one.. Keep it coming.. Thanks a ton !
This works for all auto-complete fields too – this was probably the only thing I missed from IE for a really long time before I found out what the keyboard combo was… (in IE it’s just delete).
Thanks for that. I feel brain dead for not knowing that before now as it’s embarrasing to see my many typos pop up.Ta.
Beautiful – so simple and yet I never thought of it.
This is going to save me a lot of time!
INCREDIBLE! Thank you…Ive been trying to figure this out for years!
SHIFT-DELETE, eh? I’d been wondering how to do this for a long time — especially for the auto-completes/suggestions that pop up for text-entry fields and username fields. I’m using Firefox on a Mac, not Ubuntu, but I tried your tip out anyway and — it works!
Thank you 🙂
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Made me as glad as you are
Although I am a long-term Firefox-User since Phoenix came out, I realised this method about half a year ago. God, I was happy to discover it 🙂
I’m pretty sure someone is going to squat over
I’m pretty sure someone is going to squat over
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