How do I delete all data from the adress bar?
When you type something inton the adress bar, FF will show you a bunch of similar urls. I want to delete them ALL. How do I accomplish that? I have searched Google and tried different methods, but nothing works.
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To turn off location bar autocomplete, see Controlling behaviour of the location bar, change that setting to "Nothing", you will then not get the drop-down list.
I have tried that, but it only hides the url data, it does not remove it.
The data comes from the bookmarks and the history. If you do not want it to store the data you need to set Firefox to not record your history. Have you set the Settings for privacy, browsing history and do-not-track to "Never remember history"? To remove any data that has already been saved, follow the instructions in the Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox article.
It will still list bookmarks in the drop-down list, but you can stop that by making the drop-down list display nothing.
It does not work. Even if I follow the instruction in the Clear Recent History article, old urls are still there.
Do the ones that are left have a gold/yellow star in the location bar? If they do they will be bookmarks.
If history is not being removed, there may be a problem with the file that stores bookmarks & history. You can follow the instructions concerning a "damaged places database" in the Locked or damaged places.sqlite article. You should make a backup copy of the places.sqlite file first.
No gold/yellow star.
I have checked my profile as desribed in the article, and there's no files there of that type. There is a:
folder: Chrome bookmarks.html localstore.rdf mimeTypes.rdf
You appear to be looking inside the installation directory, not the profile folder. Follow the instructions in the profiles article to find the profile folder.
Ok, I did find one places.sqlite and one places.sqlite-journal. I deleted both and restarted FF. FF should now create a new places.sqlite and places.sqlite-journal. It did not do that, and the url problem remains.
I also have reinstalled FF.
Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory > Open Containing folder
See also Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues