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Clearing information on Firefox

In the past, by clocking on Tools and Clear Private Data on Firefox it was possible literally to do that. However, following a recent update, I can no longer clear the viewing history on the drop down address bar on the browser page when using XP, although when using Linux this is not a problem. Any idea of how to tweak this? It always used to be possible!!

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  • trcooke
    trcooke Posts: 309 Forumite
    The keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl+Shift+Del

    edit: I just re-read your post. You can do this bit right? It's just not doing everything it used to. espresso got the point.
  • I am doing everything right. Everything else clears, but the drop down menu on the main page still shows viewing history!
  • Are you sure they aren't the addresses from your bookmarks?
  • Hadn't thought of that. In the drop down, they have a huge yellow star against them and all are indeed bookmarked. If this is the case, how can I remove them from the drop down menu. Again, I stress, this never used to happen! However, Firefox recently upgraded (sic) this part of their program. But I want these cleared from the drop down. Surely there has to be a way of doing that!
  • Hadn't thought of that. In the drop down, they have a huge yellow star against them and all are indeed bookmarked. If this is the case, how can I remove them from the drop down menu. Again, I stress, this never used to happen! However, Firefox recently upgraded (sic) this part of their program. But I want these cleared from the drop down. Surely there has to be a way of doing that!

    This was an addition to v3.0. I didn't like it either, silly Mozilla!
  • cuppajoe
    Thanks very much for that. Will have a look at it later, but this seems to fix the problem. I wish Firefox hadn't updated its browser; a lot of the changes weren't needed and are horrible!
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