Deleting history sidebar sites

drop down view and history for sidebar and several sites come up on the left that i cannot delete. tools etc does not erase then neither do right clicking on each item and using delete or ingnore. help please

Did you try "Forget About This Site" ?
Note that this doesn't only remove the history entries, but everything including cache cookies and passwords.
See also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite

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Unable to delete "(no title)" Folder Entry in history sidebar

Hello. Recently I got a strange issue in my history sidebar on Firefox Ver. 35 beta.
Today I noticed I have a "(no title)" folder on the history sidebar when I set the sort view to date and site. I tried to delete it by clicking on delete and on forget about this site but it doesn't gets removed.
I noticed I had this entry in 4 different dates which are in today's history, in last 7 days history, in this month history and on November's history. The rest of the days/months doesn't have such entry.
I know it has to do with the places.sqlite file since I removed it (previous backup of my profile folder). Obviously the history all of it disappeared (my bookmarks and bookmarks toolbar weren't affected) and the empty history only showed the homepage I have set for Firefox to open when I run the browser.
I really don't know what triggers this behavior. Other than that everything is working normally. No crashes, no slowdowns, no nothing. Just the "(no title)" issue.
As you can see on the screenshot, that entry only has the copy, delete and forget about this site options available, the rest are grayed out, as in not available.
I thought in ask because I was unable to remove that entry. And I don't want to lose my whole history because I have a lot of sites I visit there.
Maybe adding a way for this kind of entries to be removed would be a nice solution.
Thank you in advance :)

If you click on the no title history entry, does it take you to a webpage? And if so, if you looke at the head of the html is there an entry
<title>HTML Reference</title>
In the past when an entry like this could not be deleted it was mentioned it may have to do with sync, do you use sync, and if you do a "sync now" does this entry go away?
Also this was seen with migration of bookmarks, but was resolved. If you have the url of the no title page this may narrow down a reason, but not a work around.

I have an iPod touch and it doesn't seem to be working right it is rather slow I get booted from sites I have deleted history cache cookies still have 22.1 available space what can I do to solve the problem do I need an antivirus

I have an iPod touch that does not seem to be working properly I have deleted history cache cookies I gave 22.1 available I get booted off sites for no reason do I need an antivirus if so where can I find a good free one

There are no antivirus apps for any iDevice
- Try the standard fixes:
- Reset. nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory defaults/new iPod.

I accidently hit "forget about this site" in my history, and it deleted all related sites to it. i desperately need to get them back. how do i retrieve the forgotten or deleted sites from history in firefox4 ?

i use the firefox4, and when i went to my history, i right clicked to delete a certain site, and accidentally hit the last option; (forget about this site) which deleted all the similar sites to the one i clicked! i.e. if it were facebook site, all facebook sites were gone..
'''how do i retrieve the sites i lost in history?'''

Tony, thnx for the prompt response,,
however, i didn't delete. i hit the below option which reads; "forget about this site" which is the last item in the list that appears when you right click any site in history.
i was told there are open source programs that can retrieve it.
'''how sure r u that they cannot be recovered?!'''

I can't delete history from location bar anymore, pressing delete only eliminates it for that instant, but doesn't remove from history

upgraded to firefox 4 today

If you want to remove all traces of a site, open up the history sidebar (use keyboards shortcut Control+H), locate the site in the history, right-click on it and select "Forget About This Site". That will delete all traces of that site from browsing history, cookies, bookmarks, passwords and site preferences.

Using the "history" sidebar

It seems that there are problems with the "history" sidebar (invoked by Ctrl-H).
I use the sidebar to manage the history. The default view is "By Date and Site", such that the sites appear as nodes. Usually I navigate up and down with the arrow keys, and delete entries (or consecutive entries selected by holding the shift key) by pressing the "Del" key. These functionalities were working well in Firefox 2.x, but not the current release.
* Deleting "page" entries works as before.
* After deleting a "site" node, the cursor always jump to the topmost ("Today") node, regardless what the container "date" node is.
* In deleting consecutive "site" nodes, only the first one is deleted, and the cursor jumps to the list top afterwards.
I'd like to ask if it is possible to restore its original behaviour ?

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]

How do I delete history and bookmarks on iMac?

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To do it in OS X, open Safari and go to Safari menu (on the menu bar), so you will find an option called "Reset Safari" or something similar. Another way of removing history is to go to Safari menu -> Preferences -> Privacy, and press "Delete All Web Site Data".

Why Can I NOT Keep My Internet Explorer "DELETE HISTORY ON EXIT" Set

Ok I have been fighting this every since Windows 8.0 and NO success. Its like Microsoft coded I.E. to still hold onto all of my history and cache even though I have selected "Delete on exit". Also the Advance setting where it caches
sites files etc, NEVER deletes. I can perform the procedure, then close out. Turn off my computer and when I am back into IE. I get the "previous browser session closed yada yada.... do you wish to restore"..
Sure enough, when I 'restore' everything I 'deleted' still there.
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Karin86 wrote:
I always get an error message "Cannot update iOS software" or something to that effect everytime I try. I've tried plugging my iPad to my laptop computer and then my computer directly to internet connection (we have a router that allows WiFi access, so I thought I'd try to bypass the router instead), but this did not work. I've tried restoring my iPad via connected to my computer through iTunes, that worked for a short time and was able to update the apps I wanted, but soon after one of the apps stopped working properly, and then the apps I wanted to get from the App Store just wouldn't install or load...Instead they would be having "Waiting..." for the longest time until I give up and delete them. I've tried restarting my iPad, no luck either. I've also gone through the Reset process of "Erase All Content and Settings" i.e., Restore, and like mentioned above, it worked for a little while then it went back to square one, as I mentioned a sentence or two previously.
I've no idea what is going on, why it's not working, or anything. I just wonder if it's got anything to do with a slow internet connection (we don't have high-speed internet access), or something else I haven't found that may be just under my nose.
I would love some help and input into my situation, all and any ways which allow me to keep my current iPad (which is the New Generation one), not having to trash it and replace it with a new one.
Have you tried to restore as a new device? Maybe a glitch exists on the restored backup, try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
Good Luck!

The history sidebar does not automatically come up when I start Firefox.

I always had the history sidebar set to appear when Firefox booted. Now I have to manually open it each time. Why?

Delete localstore.rdf or rename the file to localstore.rdf.sav in the [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox Profile Folder] to test if the file is corrupted. 
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf 
(caution: do not delete the localstore.rdf file in the Firefox program installation folder) 
 
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Deleting the file [http://kb.mozillazine.org/localstore.rdf localstore.rdf] will reset the customizations of the toolbars to the defaults. 
You can rename "localstore.rdf" to "localstore.rdf.sav" to test if that solves it. 
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How do I disable the ability to delete history?

I work at a middle school where all of the 6th graders have 11 in Macbook Pros currently with Mac OS X Version 10.7.5. We have been playing around with the parental control features on the computer, but have not been able to find how to make a password required to delete history on ALL of the student's computers. It sometimes works and filters sites and won't let the student computer delete history, but as soon as the student logs in and back out, there are no parental controls on the computer anymore! We would also want to view history remotely from the teacher's Mac to the students. Is there any way to do this?
PLEASE HELP!

Hello webstert, for me Tyler Downer's above reply is the correct one.
See if you can find something useful in the next links :
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/962042#answer-445795
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
http://mike.kaply.com/2012/05/11/customizing-firefox-hiding-private-browsing/
http://mike.kaply.com/2012/06/14/customizing-firefox-hiding-private-browsing-continued/
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Firefox 26 on Mac 10.7.5 will not delete history

I am running Firefox 26 on MAC 10.7.5 and just noticed that after the update my browsing history shows sites I visited and used many many months ago - like some stupid Facebook game i hated and such.
I have tried to delete the history within firefox and it never works. I tried to find the sites in the firefox show all history and they are not there.
When I start to type an address in the address location the sites and addresses show up. These are not current or recent history addresses but old ones - ones I can't even remember when I ever went to them.
What is even more concerning is that if it's a secure page - one that requires a logon and password - it just goes right into the secure site and allows access into the page without any input from me.
How do I fix this and/or how do I completely remove firefox and all its DB files from my MAC and start over? Since I even tried removing firefox and reinstalling it and all my history is still there.

You can try to delete the places.sqlite in the profile folder to fix corrupted history etc.
SEE this link [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locked_or_damaged_places.sqlite here] for more.

History sidebar problem.

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I want to Organize my History by Site

I'd like to view my history in tree form with the site listed and details collapsed. Once I find the right site then I can open it to view the details. I managed to find how to change this by accident on one computer but I cant find it again.

*You can toggle the Bookmarks sidebar on/off via "View > Sidebars > Bookmarks" or Ctrl+B
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Can i delete history

I am trying to delete history in ie and generaly any browser all atonce if possible. it is a roundabout way to log out. the way the login is set up is that you type in user name and pass and that is the page you go to */user+pass.html* it is nice and works easy, but to log out is impossible unless you go back and delete the history your self. I would like to make a link that will go to a nuetral page that everyone has access to and delete the history at the same time if possible. thanx for the help in advance
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I have been doing more research on this and found that I am able to delete history with the following command
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how can I delete history without deleting cookies on safari yosemite?

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