How to delete or modify autocomplete entry in firefox?

We know auto complete. When we enter a username the firefox will auto complete our username.

Say some of the entries are wrong and we want to change it. How would we do so?

Lien Tut

Posted 2012-08-16T04:44:15.297

Reputation: 61

Answers

When the incorrect entry appears, highlight that entry and then press Shift + Delete and just that entry will be permanently removed.

Usually for this type of task you would use ProcessMonitor to trace hard disk drive activity in real time. Then filter PRocessMonitor by eg FireFox in this example and you can see which file (or registry key) FF is reading/writing to. Then edit the file.

Jeremy Thompson

Posted 2012-08-16T04:44:15.297

Reputation: 1 122

I have Firefox Quantum 66.0.2 (64-bit), and when I highlight a username I no longer use in twitter and press SHIFT + Delete, the entry is not deleted. Edit: That is because I did not use the down arrow key to get a darker shade of the highlight color, in my case blue. Once I used the down arrow to highlight and pressed Shift + Delete, it all worked. – octopusgrabbus – 2019-04-05T15:06:47.877

I like Jeremy's way to delete an entry. But if you want to modify it, it's more complicated and needs an add-on for accessing the form history database file:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/form-history-control/

superuser

Posted 2012-08-16T04:44:15.297

Reputation: 3 297