Have you ever mistyped your login name in firefox, only to have it save the wrong entry as well as the correct one? How do you get rid of the wrong entry? You could clear out all of your saved information, but why just for one mistake! Frustrating huh? Even more frustrating is finding the completely undocumented answer. Well I’m documenting it now.
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.
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thank you thank you thank you!
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THANK YOU!
THANK YOU AGAIN!
You have no idea how happy this made me !
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THAAAANNNKKKKK YOU :)
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THANK YOU :-)
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June 28th, 2006 @ 5:25 pm Clear Firefox Saved Form Info - Easily » Blog on a Stick Hollered:[...] Now this is handy! I was trying to figure out how to get Gmail to forget a previous email username and password the other day and I came across Mission Data Blog. There they had a simple tip for clearing out saved form information in Firefox: 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. [...]
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Thank you. I’ve been looking for this for a while now.
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Absolutely Excellent! Thank you :-)
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This article rocks both for the Firefox tip and the fact that you spelled the word VOILA correctly.
Bravo. :)
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thanks – this is great news
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Very Clever -it works with google too – if you fancy erasing some dodgy searches so the girlfriend can’t check – nice
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Uhhh, or, Tools>Options>privacy>passwords>view saved passwords… find it and delete it.
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Bravo! Thank you! Can’t imagine why this isn’t in ‘Help.’
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September 5th, 2006 @ 10:43 pm links for 2006-09-06 « packet filter Hollered:[...] Mission Data Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox Saved Form Data Frustrations 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. (tags: firefox) [...]
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you really helped! thank you!
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Wow, worked like a charm. Good job.
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November 22nd, 2006 @ 10:12 am EDITing in the Dark » Firefox Form Follies Hollered:[...] It is the only thing that is annoying me about FireFox right now – that there is no documented way to clear specific form data. Now if I would have been smart, I would have Googled earlier to find the answer that I did (from Mission Data): [...]
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Thank you so much!! this has eased my life considerably.
and to Brandon Sergent , your suggestion only works for passwords, not for all form data
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Why haven’t I Googled before? I just erased ALL the saved data.
I had typed my password behind my gmail account ID by mistake, and couldn’t find another way to erase the data.
THANK YOU for posting this!
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Thanks! Everybody else just said to clear them all! For Mac PowerBook users, it’s FN-Shift-Del.
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This tip (shift + delete) does work for me to delete saved entries from the ADDRESS BAR and SEARCH BAR at the top of the Firefox (1.5.0.9) window. It does not work when I try to use it to delete saved entries from boxes within specific web forms. I am using a Mac G5 (OS 10.4.8). Any suggestions?
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Made my day, thanks.
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January 4th, 2007 @ 10:39 am Thoughts on Design » Firefox - Saved Form Data Hollered:[...] 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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This is a great tip, hard to find and very useful. THANKS A LOT!
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Well I didn’t think I’d find the answer so quick, kudos on getting the answer to the top of google for everyone!
(p.s. Google search term: “firefox view saved form information”)
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Yes thanks a lot for this great tip.
By the way, do you know how to get the mouse side button doing a (history) back like in 1.5 releases.
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Thank you very much
Now I do my work smoother, I cant get it by doing clear private data
My question is it be saved any file in Firefox, so that we can clear it by opening it notepad. Anyway thanks!!!
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THANK YOU!! this helps immensely.
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Great idea. Thanks! Works for more than passwords too – any data field that now contains erroneous entries can be cleared rather than clearing all saved data (address info, etc.)
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That’s cool! Excellent!
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Superb advice! I’m so glad you’re were the top of the google search list for this topic. I accidentally typed my email password after my username (the user name auto filled in, but the focus was still there) so they were both ripe for the picking. Now I can rest easier. Thanks.
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AAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! THANK YOU!!!
ive always just cleared all the saved form info.
this is so much easier, just what i wanted to do. thanks again.
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Been looking for something like this for a long time. It didn’t work the first time I tried it but did on subsequent tries. Thanks.
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Yea, this really is a great thing to know, thank you so much.
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Shift-Backspace works on macs that don’t have a delete key. Great tip, thanks.
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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.
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just delete works for me (winxp, firefox 2.0.0.13)
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Ha! It’s 2 years old and still has only 5 diggs?
Great tip – I have to add many thanks to all above. I did the same as Wim did – I googled your post just a few minutes too late…
Cheers :-)
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Thank you!! This will make my life even more enjoyable!! ;-)
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You STUD!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks very much, this is a great tip, this has been driving me mad for years since I changed my email address I was fed up of seeing my old one appear everytime I logged in to stuff but didn’t want to delete everything to get rid of it so put up with it!
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Goodness!!! I just googled this and thought I was going to receive a bunch of erroneous results talking about designing web forms. Man, I’m so glad you popped up. I was prepared to search for about an hour. Thank you so very much!!!
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Thanks it helps me a lot
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Thank you. Only took me a year to find this out!
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Extremely useful! Holding shift and hitting delete is incredibly unintuitive and i’m very surprised Firefox has not documented this, but I am not surprised that it is not documented anywhere else on the web (this is because nobody could figure it out… until now!!). I am extremely grateful for your post, well done and thank you :)
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WoW that it Useful!
Also good for removing secure info you never wanted FF to store in the 1st place!
Cheers
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Sweet! I thought Firefox just dropped the ball on having this functionality, now I see that they just dropped the ball on documenting this feature! This really should be in the Help files! ;/ Thanks a million, this has been driving me crazy!
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That was the best piece of information I’ve gotten in a LONG time!!!
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Hello
This should go to the Firefox documentation! Opening the bugzilla entry now…
S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com/
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Hello again
This actually landed on one of the latest documentation versions, see http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/513390?s=saved%20form%20entry%20delete
Happy new year!
S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com/
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Thank you!
Great tip – exactly what I was looking for.
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Excellent tip. Thanks
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thanks a bunch, there are a few places where i need that feature
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Does anyone know where firefox save those form data? Is in in the sqlite file?
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Still there are people thanking you !! Thank you :)
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thanx, great tip, I was looking for addon that clears it, now I don’t have to ;) thanx again
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I was logging into a site when the tab didn’t register so my password was with my login. I’m happy that I can finally delete that data without disturbing the rest. THANK YOU!
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Thank you sooo much!!! I didn’t know it was so simple! I’ve just spent the last 20 minutes searching firefox help! Finally I can get rid of those annoying wrong entries!!! :D
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Thank you so much! Amazingly easy and answered the question perfectly. I wish the simple stuff that bugs me were always this easy to find/correct. Winner.
Your security thing sucks though.
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Thank you for this obscure and to-the-point piece of information gold, sir! Your 4 year old post managed to scratch a years old itch.
Heh, actually the post is _exactly_ 4 years old today. Must be them soular sycles attit agin’ ;)