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How To Edit The History?

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abrogard
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I use my browser history quite a lot to discover sites I've been to that I want to revisit. But it grows terribly long with, for instance, dozens of repeats of Yahoo mail logins and stuff like that. Many repeats.

I can edit out this or that entry, easy enough. But a hard job going through all those repeats one at a time. Can we perhaps access the data file for the history? 

I did read somewhere something about searching on a subject - say  'yahoo'  perhaps, and then deleting all the hits. But I couldn't find a way to delete all the hits, it didn't happen on my machine.
I use my browser history quite a lot to discover sites I've been to that I want to revisit. But it grows terribly long with, for instance, dozens of repeats of Yahoo mail logins and stuff like that. Many repeats. I can edit out this or that entry, easy enough. But a hard job going through all those repeats one at a time. Can we perhaps access the data file for the history? I did read somewhere something about searching on a subject - say 'yahoo' perhaps, and then deleting all the hits. But I couldn't find a way to delete all the hits, it didn't happen on my machine.

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You can search for a specific URL in the History Manager or in the sidebar using the search bar. You can select all items via Ctrl+A or a range or individual item via Shift and Ctrl and a left-click. It the sidebar click at the far left to avoid opening a link.

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cor-el
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Chosen Solution

You can search for a specific URL in the History Manager or in the sidebar using the search bar. You can select all items via Ctrl+A or a range or individual item via Shift and Ctrl and a left-click. It the sidebar click at the far left to avoid opening a link.

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abrogard
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Ah,, that's what I was looking for. Range select. Far left click followed by Ctrl-Shift at the end of the range. Then Delete. Lovely. 

Thanks for that.

:)