Firefox – How to ensure Firefox history is completely deleted after exiting

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I have set the option to clear my browsing history when I exit Firefox, but it does not clear completely. When I re-open Firefox, my History panel is clear but the address bar auto-completes websites which I visited in the past (and are not in my bookmarks). Old URLs must still be saved somewhere.

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I have disabled all my firefox extentions and still have this
problem.
I have experienced this problem with both firefox 20 and 21

Update: similar problem report: link

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This might provide you with an answer: Locked or damaged places.sqlite

Firefox stores history and bookmarks in a database called places.sqlite. If this is damaged, deleting history or even adding something to bookmarks might have no effect.

Mac OS X

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/

Windows Vista:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Deleting other history files does nothing.

Firefox – How to make Firefox only suggest complete URLs, and not just the host

I just found out that the feature I am not quite happy with is the inline auto-complete option of the location bar (which is one of multiple auto-complete options). Apparently, it is not possible to change the behaviour of inline auto-complete so that only full URLs from the history are proposed.

But it already helped me to disable the option (by setting browser.urlbar.autoFill to false on the about:config page). In this way, I still need to press down and enter to select the first matching history entry, but at least I am no longer tricked into trying to open URLs that will show an error page.

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Mac OS X

Windows Vista:

Firefox – How to make Firefox only suggest complete URLs, and not just the host

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