Firefox Saved Form Data Frustrations
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.
May 17th, 2006 at 6:26 am
thank you thank you thank you!
May 30th, 2006 at 3:39 am
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU AGAIN!
You have no idea how happy this made me !
May 30th, 2006 at 8:16 am
THAAAANNNKKKKK YOU :)
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:40 pm
THANK YOU :-)
June 28th, 2006 at 5:25 pm
[…] 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. […]
June 30th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Thank you. I’ve been looking for this for a while now.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:35 am
Absolutely Excellent! Thank you :-)
July 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
This article rocks both for the Firefox tip and the fact that you spelled the word VOILA correctly.
Bravo. :)
July 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
thanks - this is great news
July 18th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Very Clever -it works with google too - if you fancy erasing some dodgy searches so the girlfriend can’t check - nice
July 18th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Uhhh, or, Tools>Options>privacy>passwords>view saved passwords… find it and delete it.
September 2nd, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Bravo! Thank you! Can’t imagine why this isn’t in ‘Help.’
September 5th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
[…] 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) […]
September 19th, 2006 at 3:04 am
you really helped! thank you!
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:08 am
Wow, worked like a charm. Good job.
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:12 am
[…] 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): […]
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:41 pm
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
December 20th, 2006 at 3:34 am
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!
December 20th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Thanks! Everybody else just said to clear them all! For Mac PowerBook users, it’s FN-Shift-Del.
December 28th, 2006 at 12:18 am
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?
January 4th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Made my day, thanks.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:39 am
[…] 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 […]
January 9th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
This is a great tip, hard to find and very useful. THANKS A LOT!
January 10th, 2007 at 11:16 am
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”)
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
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.
February 2nd, 2007 at 1:33 am
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!!!
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
THANK YOU!! this helps immensely.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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.)
May 14th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
That’s cool! Excellent!
June 15th, 2007 at 8:29 am
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.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
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.
June 29th, 2007 at 7:15 am
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.
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Yea, this really is a great thing to know, thank you so much.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:16 am
Shift-Backspace works on macs that don’t have a delete key. Great tip, thanks.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 am
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.