I'm Unable to Clear Awesome Bar History

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I've seen this question asked but no solution was forthcoming...
Only recently I noticed that the Awesome Bar History will not clear. I habitually use the ‘Clear Private Data’ option. However, the All Pages list will not delete. Any insight?

hi, I found this in Help at 1734 BST in UK. It's a bit down the page. I use a netbook. Maybe this is for laptops, netbooks.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Location%20bar%20autocomplete#w_changing-your-location-bar-settings
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
*Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
You can remove all data stored in Firefox from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History > Show All History" or "View > Sidebar > History") or via the about:permissions page.
Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.
You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of the involved files.
It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.

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Use these steps to remove saved (form) data from a drop-down list:
#click the (empty) input field on the web page to open the drop-down list
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clearing+Location+bar+history
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cannot+clear+Location+bar+history

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So both browsers you tried give the identical error message that Bing is unable to clear the history right now? It does sound like a Bing problem in that case.
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You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
Either enter '''about:support''' in your address bar, or go to:
* Help (or [[Image: New Fx Menu]] > [[Image: Help-29]]) > Troubleshooting Information
Beside Profile Folder, click the "Show Folder" button to access the location of the file. Make sure it isn't read only. You can also install the [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/ Places Maintenance] extension to run maintenance on the file. Please read the following articles first as they provide helpful hints and instructions that may be relevant to you:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file

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If I click on the search box every search I've entered comes up underneath!
Thanks in anticipation.

Jon, Thanks I was ok up to Clear sites, couldnt see how to do that
gg When I've cleared browser history in the past It doesn't clear the search history.
Thank you both for your replies.
However I've done it!
Tools- Internet Options - Advanced - Reset.
This resets to when Ie was first installed so I have to reload all my favourites.
I might be back later with an e-mail problem!!

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Is there a FF built-in feature or an addon to periodically clear the location bar history (which seems to be separate from the location bar history)?.
As above, is there a way to erase only certain searches from the search-bar history, for example those which match a pre-defined pattern?
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Don't right-click on the icon, right-click on the search box, this way you can "Clear Search History".

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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]]
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After an upgrade, all of my typical functions where gone. I dont have anywhere to type in website URLs or go back in my history. I don't even have tools so I cant troubleshoot.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== After an upgrade

Hit the '''Alt''' key to show the Menu bar, then open View > Toolbars and select Menu bar, so it has a check-mark. Also check-mark the Navigation bar.

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Sorry to have bothered here. It's just that Firefox makes you jump through hoops to delete your entire browsing history. I figured that out by going into the Options and changing the very high number of days (something like 90, as I recall) that they keep stuff on, down to 1, and also telling it to delete my history every time I log off. Hope this helps others.

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Entries in the location bar drop down list with a yellow (blue on Mac) star at the right end are bookmarks. 
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* [[Clearing Location bar history]]
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Use these steps to remove saved (form) data from a drop-down list:
#highlight an entry in the drop-down list
#press the Delete key (on Mac: Shift+Delete) to remove it.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Deleting_autocomplete_entries
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Clearing+Location+bar+history
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Cannot+clear+Location+bar+history

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