Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Ray_Net wrote: I just prefer: Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key. Thank you for confirming that you tried this method, and that it works for you. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Jonathan N. Little wrote on 30/07/2015 06:53: Ray_Net wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 29/07/2015 03:24: http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/delete-url You have the delete option with right click on selecting in the url box ... not when you highlight the victim in the list presented to you when you start typing. As soon as the list collapses with victim in the list selected right-click... Good question. This is why i will never use this method. I just prefer: Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Jonathan N. Little wrote on 29/07/2015 03:24: Ray_Net wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 27/07/2015 22:37: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Right-click doesnot not show a delete option, the action just jump and display that page. BUT Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key This is working now, at the second try, because at the first try... I badly understand select it instead of moving the highlight http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/delete-url You have the delete option with right click on selecting in the url box ... not when you highlight the victim in the list presented to you when you start typing. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Ray_Net wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 29/07/2015 03:24: http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/delete-url You have the delete option with right click on selecting in the url box ... not when you highlight the victim in the list presented to you when you start typing. As soon as the list collapses with victim in the list selected right-click... -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Ray_Net wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote on 27/07/2015 22:37: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Right-click doesnot not show a delete option, the action just jump and display that page. BUT Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key This is working now, at the second try, because at the first try... I badly understand select it instead of moving the highlight http://www.littleworksstudio.com/temp/usenet/delete-url -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 2:07 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Thanks, Jonathan. I noted that A Williams replied to me and said it didn't work. :-) I've been waiting for notme to report that he's tried it. (It's *always* worked for me, in any Mozilla browser.) Downarrow to offending URL (selects it) . Press Delete key. None of this works for me. I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.35. What configurations do you, Williams, and Little have? Is it possible you all have an extension that makes this work? Works for me with same OS with v2.33.1 (my default browser so I don't fool with nightly with my business data), plus also works with Firefox and PaleMoon AND also works with Ubuntu 14.04 14.10 with SeaMonkey and Firefox... ...more likely something you have installed. -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Jonathan N. Little wrote on 27/07/2015 22:37: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Right-click doesnot not show a delete option, the action just jump and display that page. BUT Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key This is working now, at the second try, because at the first try... I badly understand select it instead of moving the highlight ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Ray_Net wrote: Right-click doesnot not show a delete option, the action just jump and display that page. BUT Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key This is working now, at the second try, because at the first try... I badly understand select it instead of moving the highlight Good news then. Easy to do, and no extensions or messing in data files is necessary. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! -- Take care, Jonathan --- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Jonathan N. Little wrote: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Thanks, Jonathan. I noted that A Williams replied to me and said it didn't work. :-) I've been waiting for notme to report that he's tried it. (It's *always* worked for me, in any Mozilla browser.) Downarrow to offending URL (selects it) . Press Delete key. -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
On 7/27/2015 2:07 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: A Williams wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 8:08 AM, A Williams wrote: I have discovered another way of nuking this information: (in the Browser) Go - History and then delete any line(s) you don't want. You will note that the list is searchable. I do not think that works. I have entries in my address area (URL bar) that are NOT in my history. On the history window, I set [View Group by None] and sorted by URI. I just tried it on this machine. It worked, exactly as I had hoped. Step 1 was to search for the link using part of the url Step 2 was to delete it from History After that it was no longer offered to me in the location bar. BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Thanks, Jonathan. I noted that A Williams replied to me and said it didn't work. :-) I've been waiting for notme to report that he's tried it. (It's *always* worked for me, in any Mozilla browser.) Downarrow to offending URL (selects it) . Press Delete key. None of this works for me. I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.35. What configurations do you, Williams, and Little have? Is it possible you all have an extension that makes this work? -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: David E. Ross wrote: On 7/27/2015 2:07 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: [snippage] BTW Beauregard's method also works. Start typing in the URL bar and when the target URL shows move highlight to it, and press the delete key or right-click Delete. Gone! Thanks, Jonathan. I noted that A Williams replied to me and said it didn't work. :-) I've been waiting for notme to report that he's tried it. (It's *always* worked for me, in any Mozilla browser.) Downarrow to offending URL (selects it) . Press Delete key. None of this works for me. I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.35. What configurations do you, Williams, and Little have? I have various SeaMonkey and Firefox browsers, and I even tested an older IceCat. I'm using Ubuntu. The above method removes a URL from the dropdown suggestions, and it doesn't come back. Is it possible you all have an extension that makes this work? No. Not me. I'm not a big user of extensions. To the OP - do a search for SQLite Manager. You can delete individual entries from the URL bar with the greatest of ease. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
no...@nonospam.org wrote on 7/17/2015 9:44 AM: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! Google is your friend. https://www.google.com/search?q=seamonkey%20clear%20location%20bar%20historygws_rd=ssl See first returned link. -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies! - Artur Schnabel ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! Additional Information: Sqlite Manager runs under Seamonkey and can be used to edit this file. It might possibly be a better idea to run this add-on under Firefox when Seamonkey is not running - I simply don't know. You want the table moz_places and the field url Search that for http://badlink.you.want.to.delete and then you can simply delete that line. I just did that on my system. All I have to check is what happens when I exit and restart Seamonkey. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! My guess (ok, more than a guess) is that you need to look at places.sqlite, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite tells you more about the file. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Ed Mullen wrote: no...@nonospam.org wrote on 7/17/2015 9:44 AM: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. ... Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! Google is your friend. https://www.google.com/search?q=seamonkey%20clear%20location%20bar%20historygws_rd=ssl See first returned link. But the OP said he did that (right above the snip). From his description, clearing the location bar doesn't work. -- War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. -- Paul B. Gallagher ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
notme wrote: I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. What happens if you scroll to, and highlight, the unwanted link in the dropdown and press your Delete key? -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
no...@nonospam.org wrote: I'm running SeaMonkey v2.33.1 on a Windows 7 machine. I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. I have unchecked everything in Preferences-Browser-History, cleared history, and cleared location bar. I have unchecked Autocomplete in Preferences-Browser-Location Bar I have cleared Private Data in Preferences-Browser-Privacy Security I have cleared Cache in Preferences-Browser-Advanced Rebooted and restarted SeaMonkey. With all of these things turned off, the misspelled site no longer shows up, but as soon as I turn the settings back on it is there again. I searched the Windows registry and didn't find it. Where is this information stored? How can I get rid of it, as if I had never visited the site? Thanks! I have gotten so that I no longer notice if that happens or not. Why not ignore the suggestion and keep typing? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Removing a site from location bar history
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: notme wrote: I misspelled a website address and ended up on a real site that is of no interest to me. Now every time I start to enter the address of the site I want, this misspelled site shows up at the top of the list in the location bar. What happens if you scroll to, and highlight, the unwanted link in the dropdown and press your Delete key? I had a similar problem months ago and tried that. No. As I already posted in this thread. the addon Sqlite Manager is the cleanest way of fixing this. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
