Resolved Selectively delete URLs from address bar

Hi all,

When I click the ▼ arrow on the address bar, there's a lot of sites I want to delete and some I want to keep.

Is there a way to selectively delete the ones I don't want?

 

It didn't work. Do you know where the address bar URLs are located?

 

If the url's are in your Bookmarks you will not be able to delete them from the navigation drop down list. You have to remove it from the Bookmarks first. BTDT

If they are only in History they can be deleted by highlighting one at a time with the cursor then press and hold the shift key while you press the delete key.

 

If you are talking about Firefox, it works. I am talking about the dropdown from the URL bar.
And, most, but not all the addresses are in the bookmarks. When the dropdown has one item deleted, it does nothing to the bookmarks.
And, my history is removed on closing. Some URLs in the dropdown have been there for weeks.

 

Sorry 'bout that, guys: I should have mentioned I'm using SeaMonkey 1.1.18.

Anyway, the highlight\shift\delete doesn't work. And, the URLs in the dropdown address bar box aren't bookmarked.

There's over 30 entries and I'd like to delete about 25 of them. In Edit\Prefs\History, I only have the option of deleting all of them; which isn't what I want to do.

So, where in SeaMonkey or Mozilla do I go to delete the unwanted?

 

I have to improvise, as I don't have neither Netscape7.x, Mozilla or Seamonkey1.1.x on my computer. I can't promise that it is correct, nor test it, but let's give it a shot.
It is in the localstore.rdf file of your Profile. I, still have the Profile, and, opening the file with Wordpad, and scrolling down to:<RDF:Seq RDF about= "nc:urlbar-history "> I se a list of sites. As a test, highlight one of the ones you don't want, and Delete. Close the file and exit Profile. Now, open SM, and see if it did what you wanted. If yes, highlight and delete all undesired files.

 

Hi Westside,

No go. I closed out of SM, found the localstore.rdf, opened it in Wordpad, carefully deleted about 4 listings I didn't want, saved the changes, exited the profile, restarted SM, and — they were still there. Plus, I found a lot of URLs that aren't listed in the dropdown box.

Could it be somewhere else?

 

Hi jpChris, does CCcleaner work on URL's or only Browser History? Just a thought. Neil.

 

@Neil,
No, CCleaner doesn't do selective URLs.

@Westside,
It did work after all! I had to reboot before it took effect. Just editing and closing out doesn't do it — gotta do a reboot. Thanks!