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Firefox - Saved Form Data
Have you ever mistyped something in a data form in Firefox? How about submitted something on a form that you'll never need again? When you go to enter information in a form, does it gives you a long list of suggestions, when you regularly only use one entry? Now you can clear out the bad or outdated form entries, without clearing all of your form data. Delete one saved form item at a time.
Go to the form where the mistake is. Put your cursor in the text entry widget and hit down until the incorrect entry is highlighted. Now press shift + del... voila. You're welcome. - Mission Data
I'm not sure when it changed, but shift is no longer required. Just scroll down the list of form data, and hit delete.
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GREAT TIP! This is just what I needed and yes, it worked.
Glad it helped. It's ridiculously simple to do, if you know how, and quite annoying if you don't know how.
You have just made my YEAR! I usually just bite the bullet, clear it all, and start over. This is SUCH a time and aggravation saver! Thanks for sharing.
thank you very much...I've tried several times to find info on this. Today is my lucky day. I usually clear it all and start over too. Very annoying.
I LOVE U, lol, i was just looking for this!
This may not be the most profound piece of writing, but it sure makes people happy who are looking for it.
Perfect!! Thank you!
Makes one wonder; why isn't this in the "Help" Manual?
Seems obvious, doesn't it?
Thanks alot !!!!! Where can i find other tips like this one? Not a word on this in FF Help. You saved my day !
Excellent.. many many thanks for posting this brilliant tip.
Very cool... and this led me to a further discovery. My problem was if I entered data in form values, chose not to keep them, and refreshed the page, the form values still held my changes. Turns out, if you hold down Shift while clicking the refresh button, the page refreshes without the remembered values.
Thanks Mark, I didn't know that!
Just pressing delete will suffice, no need to press shift.
That will also work for the address bar if you want to remove individual URL, and for the search field at the top right of FF too. Cheers!
"saved form data" + "I'm feeling lucky" = this page. douglas t ftw! Great aggravation-saver.
Glad to hear it you found it useful. I sure appreciated it when I found it.
Thanks, I did it once before and couldn't remember how I did it.
Very useful. Thank you. How did you learn of this?
I found it at the blog linked above. I chose to repost it since it took me so long to find in the first place.
goodo tip. now if only firefox would document it
Thank you very much for that tip ! I have been anoyed by this behavior for months.
Appreciate.
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great tip! thank you a lot!
ITS OF GR8 HELP
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when i click on the box it shows all what I have typed, rather than my first letters. please help me!!!
If you start to type, the suggestions should disappear. That doesn't happen?
Super, thanks Douglas T!
I wonder why Firefox does not have a dedicated menu item and a page for editing saved form data.
Otherwise I'd have to remember all the form URLs I have visited so far... no chance. This information should be there in one of the files in the profile directory. Maybe it can be edited by hand...
Could it be formhistory.sqlite ? ;)
You'd think that data would be accessible and editable. You'd be wrong as far as I know. Let me know if you find it!
Life saver....Thanks a lot!!!!!
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post... nice! I love your blog. :) Cheers! Sandra. R.
Hallelujah, man! Thanks for the info!
Great! Thanks for that trick!
better safe than sorry;I ended up typying my pwd inside my login field and it kept appearing everytime I tried to access the service...btw this did the trick! Thanks very much!
How about finding out the date and the time a certain entry entered the sugestion list? Does anyone know how to do that?
I sure don't. Any interesting idea though.
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