VeeshanVault

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to clear the prepopulated values from Mozilla's search field? As you select the different drop down selections for search engines\areas it will preload different stuff. "You" for instance will automatically show youtube, youporn, etc.. using Google, and different results from the other selections. This isn't the history list, the content is selected by the advertisers (?) paying Google, etc.. via Mozilla for it to be there.

I do a lot of work using netmeeting and live meeting, sometimes with browsers and don't want to deal with the reactions of people to work inappropriate stuff I have no control over. It's nothing to do with me and there wouldn't be any fallout over it at work, I just don't need the hassle\distraction that it's eventually going to cause.

So how to clear it? Google and the other search engines (of course) have no results when searching on how to get rid of it, and a text search on my computer looking for those keywords didn't come back with a file location.

you can delete entries from the address bar dropdown with the delete key, or shift-delete.

these links might help:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_aut ... _-_Firefox
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_autocomplete_entries

I think you can also do "Clear Private data" under tools and just choose to clear search and forms history.

Maybe I misunderstood...are these fields pre-filling? as in, you never searched for them, but they will fill based on popular search terms?

Boogahz wrote:Maybe I misunderstood...are these fields pre-filling? as in, you never searched for them, but they will fill based on popular search terms?

Correct, they are preloaded in the application and not part of any user history.

*Edit - If you delete them they come right back, there are oodles of entries in every category.

Disabling auto-fill looks to be my only option, kind of sucks as I like the feature. Going to try it later.