FF suggest URL that does not show in history; also FF stores but will not suggest new entries in history
Running Windows 10 Pro on a Lenovo E31.
I cannot get rid of cracktube.net showing up when I enter "cr" in the address bar, heading for "craigslist". My fault no doubt; I was searching for a crack for a piece of design software. Lesson learned.
The site does not appear in my history, and I have followed various suggestions here to manage stored entries; again, the site simply does not appear.
Malwarebytes blocks the site as a phishing site; problem did not change when I ran MSRT.
Also, and more annoying, when I go to a legit site for the first time, the site appears in my history but does not come up when I enter the first few letters (or almost all of the letters) the next time I want to go there.
I have, with no resultant improvement: Removed and reinstalled FF twice. Located 5 profiles in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\; by renaming each in turn I discovered the one that I am actually using and deleted the rest. Manually browsed my entire history and found no mention of the offending site.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks all.
Art
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Press Ctrl+H, search for URL, remove results. Press Ctrl+B, search for URL, remove results.
art35 said
Also, and more annoying, when I go to a legit site for the first time, the site appears in my history but does not come up when I enter the first few letters (or almost all of the letters) the next time I want to go there.
This is normal. It only appears after a few visits.
The in-URL-bar "autofill" feature that suggests top-level site addresses uses a separate list (separate database table) that should get cleaned up automatically when the visits to a site (and all bookmarks) are removed, but it doesn't always get cleaned up.
Since you cannot visit the site, it's a bit difficult to create a history entry so you can right-click > Forget About This site (which is the typical recommendation for this situation). Hmm.
There is an add-on you can use to add an entry to history as if you visited it, by right-clicking a link to the page and clicking "Toggle visited status". I already use this extension but most people do not have it. If you want to try that: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-visitor-5/
Franz_von_Suppe said
Press Ctrl+H, search for URL, remove results. Press Ctrl+B, search for URL, remove results. As I mentioned the site does NOT show in history; I just checked bookmarks and it is not their either.art35 said
Also, and more annoying, when I go to a legit site for the first time, the site appears in my history but does not come up when I enter the first few letters (or almost all of the letters) the next time I want to go there.This is normal. It only appears after a few visits.
This has been going on for weeks.
Thanks for the reply - I never thought to check bookmarks.
jscher2000 said
The in-URL-bar "autofill" feature that suggests top-level site addresses uses a separate list (separate database table) that should get cleaned up automatically when the visits to a site (and all bookmarks) are removed, but it doesn't always get cleaned up. Since you cannot visit the site, it's a bit difficult to create a history entry so you can right-click > Forget About This site (which is the typical recommendation for this situation). Hmm. I disabled Malwarebytes, went to the site, closed the tab, closed FF. re-opened and highlighted the site and clicked "Forget about this site". Site is now removed from history; typing "cr" in the address bar still brings up the site - aaarrrghhhhh There is an add-on you can use to add an entry to history as if you visited it, by right-clicking a link to the page and clicking "Toggle visited status". I already use this extension but most people do not have it. If you want to try that: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/link-visitor-5/
Appreciate the suggestion but momentarily disabling Malwarebytes took care of adding and then removing site from history.
thank you
Art
art35 said
Running Windows 10 Pro on a Lenovo E31. I cannot get rid of cracktube.net showing up when I enter "cr" in the address bar, heading for "craigslist". My fault no doubt; I was searching for a crack for a piece of design software. Lesson learned.
Along the lines of any port in a storm I just did a complete registry search for "cracktube" - came up empty. Not even sure I can explain why I thought to do it.
Art