Delete The URL History From Mozilla Firefox Address Bar

You are an advert internet user and you strive for privacy in whatever you do. You do not wish anyone else to look into your browsing habits. You always wish to clean your tracks from the traces of your online presence and You wish to clear the first place where people can see your browsing history.

But, how do we clear the browsing history and the damn URLs which always creep in when you focus the mouse pointer on the address bar? Easy, you just clear the browsing history from Tools -> Options -> Privacy tab and choose the right options or else use Tools -> Clear Private Data and clear the tracks. No, it is not that easy. Even if you use the mentioned methods, there is a very less chance that your browsing history will be deleted. You can again see the URLs in the address bar drop down.

So, the best method would be, rather than to clear the address bar each and everytime, it’s better to config the browser to not even store the URLs in the first place. Ok, how do we do it?

A few steps :

1. Type ‘about:config’ in the Mozilla Firefox Address bar and Hit Enter. You will be presented the below screen.



2. Yeah, give the Promise and click the above button to be presented with the Configuration Options of your favorite browser, Firefox.
3. From the options, move down until you reach ‘browser:urlbar.maxRichResults’. The value at the end of this would be by default ‘12’ and this is the number of URLs being displayed in the address bar and which we are planning to reduce or remove permanently.
4. So, at last you can double click on it or else right-click and choose ‘Modify’ from the context menu.
5. Place 0 or else your required number based on your will and wish.
6. Restart browser.

There, we are done with it now.

Try it.