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 Now you can clear out the bad or outdated form entries, without clearing all of your form data.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
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GREAT TIP! This is just what I needed and yes, it worked.
Comment by JR October 16, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Glad it helped. It’s ridiculously simple to do, if you know how, and quite annoying if you don’t know how.
Comment by Douglas T October 16, 2007 @ 9:21 am
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.
Comment by Sue M November 2, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
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.
Comment by brado November 14, 2007 @ 9:26 am
I LOVE U, lol, i was just looking for this!
Comment by sebastian November 28, 2007 @ 8:12 am
This may not be the most profound piece of writing, but it sure makes people happy who are looking for it.
Comment by Douglas T November 28, 2007 @ 8:23 am
Perfect!! Thank you!
Makes one wonder; why isn’t this in the “Help” Manual?
Comment by Christian Anton November 29, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Seems obvious, doesn’t it?
Comment by Douglas T November 29, 2007 @ 8:50 am
Thanks alot !!!!! Where can i find other tips like this one? Not a word on this in FF Help. You saved my day !
Comment by zgagato January 4, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
Excellent.. many many thanks for posting this brilliant tip.
Comment by Ren January 16, 2008 @ 8:36 am
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.
Comment by Mark Bereit January 23, 2008 @ 11:42 am
Thanks Mark, I didn’t know that!
Comment by Douglas T January 24, 2008 @ 11:37 am
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!
Comment by Bumblebee February 7, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
“saved form data” + “I’m feeling lucky” = this page. douglas t ftw! Great aggravation-saver.
Comment by Joel Reid March 1, 2008 @ 1:00 am
Glad to hear it you found it useful. I sure appreciated it when I found it.
Comment by Douglas T March 1, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
Thanks, I did it once before and couldn’t remember how I did it.
Comment by Booker T March 23, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Very useful. Thank you. How did you learn of this?
Comment by Alex April 3, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
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.
Comment by Douglas T April 3, 2008 @ 12:43 pm
goodo tip. now if only firefox would document it
Comment by charlie shub July 14, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
Thank you very much for that tip ! I have been anoyed by this behavior for months.
Appreciate.
Comment by Frederic August 29, 2008 @ 2:57 am
[...] a Google search I found this post from last year on a blog by Douglas T. And the answer is: Go to the form where the mistake is. Put [...]
Pingback by Kynan Stewart Hughes » Blog Archive » Deleting saved form data in FireFox August 31, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
great tip! thank you a lot!
Comment by r September 24, 2008 @ 3:48 am
ITS OF GR8 HELP
Comment by PRATIK September 28, 2008 @ 5:11 am
Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when i click on the box it shows all what I have typed, rather than my first letters. please help me!!!
Comment by NOOR February 17, 2009 @ 9:42 am
If you start to type, the suggestions should disappear. That doesn’t happen?
Comment by Douglas T February 18, 2009 @ 7:11 am
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 ? ;)
Comment by Csani March 20, 2009 @ 8:26 am
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!
Comment by Douglas T March 20, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
Life saver….Thanks a lot!!!!!
Comment by Fulano April 29, 2009 @ 10:12 am