Clearing Firefox's Search History
Just a quick tip for the Firefox users in the crowd (in a perfect world, that would be all of you). If you're tired of Google (or whichever other search engine you have set up as the default) auto-filling search terms and you want to start with a clean slate, just right-click (or control-click for Mac single-buttoners) in the search box and choose "Clear Search History" in the pop-up menu.
This also works in Safari, by the way.
If you want to prevent future additions to the search history, you can toggle that option in Firefox's preferences. Be aware, however, that turning this option off also affects other web-based forms.
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Oh well. I was hoping I'd come back to see you tell me how I'm all wrong and here's how to do it.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn at May 2, 2006 01:54 PMSorry, David...I've been distracted by pesky clients. ;-)
Have you tried the "Work Offline" mode (under the File menu item)? I think what you're asking for is what it's designed to do. I'll admit that I've never used it so I don't know exactly how it works.
There's also an extension that, um, extends this capability.
If you test it and find that it does, in fact, answer your question, give us a shout so that we can all benefit from your research.
Posted by: Eric at May 2, 2006 02:05 PMHave you tried the "Work Offline" mode (under the File menu item)? I think what you're asking for is what it's designed to do.
You would think, huh? I thought I'd tried it before and it didn't work, but I tried it again and got:
Offline mode
Firefox is currently in offline mode and can't browse the Web.
* Uncheck "Work Offline" in the File menu, then try again.
when I tried to call up a URL that should be in the cache.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn at May 3, 2006 04:46 PMMan, if you can't trust Firefox, who can you trust?
I wonder what the Offline Mode is intended to accomplish?
Posted by: Eric at May 4, 2006 06:33 AMI used to be able to work offline, but that was in the days of internet explorer. I can't anymore in Firefox. I wonder if Firefox doesn't allow it, as I get the same message as David B.
Posted by: Bert at May 5, 2006 05:15 AMAbout the publisher
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Do you know what I REALLY want? I want the browser to automatically use the cache when I'm off line instead of giving me a blank screen. It's really annoying to know that the page I want is in my computer, but I can't access it.
Posted by: David Boxenhorn at May 2, 2006 05:07 AM