Firefox Privacy – How to Clear Drop-Down History in Firefox

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  1. I was wondering how to clear the
    following privacy in Firefox 3.6.16:

    • when typing address in the address
      bar, the history meeting the partial
      typing provided by auto-completion.
    • without doing anything, the drop-down list of addresses in
      address bar

    Is it possible to just clear the
    former without clearing the latter, and without actually clearing the history i.e. you can still get the history by clicking History->Show All History?

  2. What is the general strategy of
    protecting one's own privacy, while
    keeping the history as much as
    possible? My case is using Firefox
    on my personal laptop, which will
    occasionally be used by others under
    my account, for example, to help me
    solve some problems by typing some webpage address and visiting them in Firefox.

Operating systems are Windows 7 & Ubuntu 10.10

Best Answer

In Preferences, on the Privacy tab, there is a settings called When using the location bar, suggest:. Setting it to Nothing appears to affect both actions you mentioned: auto-complete while typing, and click the drop-down arrow. I don't think those two can be separated.

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