Removing addresses from Safari location bar
I love Firefox, but because I use it for development, I’ve got it so overloaded with extensions that it runs sluggishly and is generally a pain in the neck for everyday use. So I’ve been half-heartedly switching back to Safari as my everyday putzing around browser, and just using Firefox for work.
One of the features I love about Firefox is the very easy keystroke (Shift+Delete on a Mac) to delete an unwanted address from the browser’s location bar. That way, if you mistyped an address once, you’re not haunted by the spector of that incorrect address until your browser finally gets around to clearing it away - you can manually remove it. Or say you checked the weather in North Carolina and Florida before your recent visits, and now every time you start typing the address of the Weather Underground, you have to sift past those other addresses before you get to your local one. Not a big annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but if this happens several times a day, it’s nice to fix it.
Thanks to Jamie, I now have the answer for how to do this on Safari. Not as easy as Firefox, but easier than the answers I found when Googling (mostly variations on “remove your entire history and all saved profile data”):
- In the “View” menu, choose “Show Bookmarks Bar”
- Click on the Bookmarks bar icon to view your bookmarks
- Click on your History to view the list
- In the top right corner, search for the incorrect url(s)
- Select and delete
I still might try creating multiple profiles on Firefox, but for the time being I’m plodding along on Safari. It’s frustrating that I never am confident about which keyboard shortcuts to use without stopping to look at which browser I’m in, but after years of working on Macs and PCs at the same time, I’m kind of used to that sort of problem.
(PS - Hi Mike! :-)