How do I delete an individual URL from the dropdown in the address bar in Firefox 73? Shift+Del no longer works.
In previous versions all you had to do was highlight a URL in the dropdown from the address bar and Shift+Del would remove it, but that no longer works in 73.0.1, and it's funcionally impossible to find an answer via search engine because every result is pre-73 and suggests Shift+Del.
Réiteach roghnaithe
@FredMcD It changed to shift-del for all platforms a few releases ago.
@TexasUberAlles shift-del should still be working for urls that are in your history.
Check that they haven't got a star by them (which would mean they're bookmarks and might behave differently).
You could also try this:
- Click the Library button
, then click Bookmarks.
- Scroll to the bottom and click Show All Bookmarks.
- Click the history item in the left-hand pane.
- At the top-right of the window, search for the url you want to remove.
- Select it and press delete.
If that doesn't work, then there may be a bigger issue here.
Either way, please let us know.
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Click in the field, enter a character or two and STOP ! Using the arrow keys, highlight an unwanted entry. Then press Delete (Mac=Shift Delete). Repeat as needed.
Do any of these links help you? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/control-whether-firefox-automatically-fills-forms
Nnnope. Doesn't work, tried that already. That replaces whatever the URL is with whatever characters were typed into the address bar, but opening a new tab and typing same letters still shows that URL in the dropdown.
Réiteach Roghnaithe
@FredMcD It changed to shift-del for all platforms a few releases ago.
@TexasUberAlles shift-del should still be working for urls that are in your history.
Check that they haven't got a star by them (which would mean they're bookmarks and might behave differently).
You could also try this:
- Click the Library button , then click Bookmarks.
- Scroll to the bottom and click Show All Bookmarks.
- Click the history item in the left-hand pane.
- At the top-right of the window, search for the url you want to remove.
- Select it and press delete.
If that doesn't work, then there may be a bigger issue here.
Either way, please let us know.
Apparently the issue had something to do with trying to delete the first URL on the list? Every time I tried, it would appear to delete but still show up in a new tab, but once I went further down and deleted a different URL, now Shift+Del works again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Very strange!