Address URL bar and History

In some browsers you are allowed to customize your history even moreso than Safari lets you do. And you can customize your "automatic fill in the address URL bar".
What I want to do is not have a history AT ALL in safari or at the least have it delete every time I quit Safari.
I also DO NOT want the autofill to occur when I start typing a URL in the address bar.
Is there any way to accomplish both of these tasks?
Thanks.

Hi
Regarding the auto-fill in the URL, the only easy workaround is to press the spacebar once before entering the address.
Regarding History, if you want no trace of History entries, either begin your session by going to the Safari Menu, selecting "Private Browsing", or at the end of your session, go to the History Menu and select "Clear History". Note, if you don't use Private Browsing, you'll need to "empty cache" in the Safari Menu to remove these related entries.
Clearing History will not stop the URL prompts, unless Private Browsing is first selected. To fully clear these prompts you would need to delete Bookmarks and Cache entries too. Somewhat daunting, and not very intuitive.

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