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Cannot remove a site from url autocomplete that's not in history anymore.

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Alright, first thing is first: There is a specific url that is no longer in my history, it's site my fiance went to in order to watch his anime. I've cleared my history, downloads, caches, cookies, etc. etc. The whole shebang, even did the "forget about this site" for the url. I've even deleted files out of my C:\ drive in attempt to remove this highly unwanted autocomplete url. (I type in "wat" und it pop up for autocomplete, when I even have 5 bookmarked websites with "wat" in them that for some reason don't pop up instead.) I've started in safemode, und all that other jazz.

No, I am not going to change my Location bar settings to Nothing. I greatly like typing in two or three letters for a suggested autocomplete site to pop up. It's convenient for me, und something I use a million times a day. Alright, so maybe at least a hundred.

I've tried the whole "delete" when it's highlighted, the "shift+delete", removing "places.sqlite" files from my computer, und pretty much all I can do shy of resetting firefox...which I just reset firefox maybe two weeks ago because of the slowness. I seriously wish Firefox made it hell of a lot easier to downgrade to versions that didn't eat my resources. This version 34 crap is annoyingly hungry.

Yet, back to the point I just cannot seem to remove "http://watchanimedubbed.tv/" from the autocomplete. After clearing everything, cookies, history, downloads, logins, etc....everything that shows up on the damn list when you want to clear your history when going through "Clear recent history" und having "time range to clear" set to everything....I just don't know how to get rid of it. Und resetting firefox is a last resort because.

I know for a fact it's not the few addons I have, well...maybe. The only one it could be would be the avast, but I don't see how that would affect it und it doesn't do this with any other site (or at least that I have found). I've read multiple questions on Mozilla support as well as other sites about people having similar issues, yet most of them one of the above fixes worked for them. A few of us still remain perplexed as to why these autocomplete urls are not screwing off.

Also, running FF on Windows.

Alright, first thing is first: There is a specific url that is no longer in my history, it's site my fiance went to in order to watch his anime. I've cleared my history, downloads, caches, cookies, etc. etc. The whole shebang, even did the "forget about this site" for the url. I've even deleted files out of my C:\ drive in attempt to remove this highly unwanted autocomplete url. (I type in "wat" und it pop up for autocomplete, when I even have 5 bookmarked websites with "wat" in them that for some reason don't pop up instead.) I've started in safemode, und all that other jazz. No, I am not going to change my Location bar settings to Nothing. I greatly like typing in two or three letters for a suggested autocomplete site to pop up. It's convenient for me, und something I use a million times a day. Alright, so maybe at least a hundred. I've tried the whole "delete" when it's highlighted, the "shift+delete", removing "places.sqlite" files from my computer, und pretty much all I can do shy of resetting firefox...which I just reset firefox maybe two weeks ago because of the slowness. I seriously wish Firefox made it hell of a lot easier to downgrade to versions that didn't eat my resources. This version 34 crap is annoyingly hungry. Yet, back to the point I just cannot seem to remove "http://watchanimedubbed.tv/" from the autocomplete. After clearing everything, cookies, history, downloads, logins, etc....everything that shows up on the damn list when you want to clear your history when going through "Clear recent history" und having "time range to clear" set to everything....I just don't know how to get rid of it. Und resetting firefox is a last resort because. I know for a fact it's not the few addons I have, well...maybe. The only one it could be would be the avast, but I don't see how that would affect it und it doesn't do this with any other site (or at least that I have found). I've read multiple questions on Mozilla support as well as other sites about people having similar issues, yet most of them one of the above fixes worked for them. A few of us still remain perplexed as to why these autocomplete urls are not screwing off. Also, running FF on Windows.

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It was never a bookmark, like...ever. However, I did successfully fix the issue with your help. Not regarding anything towards bookmarks, though.


You mentioned the FIrefox Profile Folder, which I had to dig in Roaming to get to. I had searched my computer without going into roaming to delete the places.sqlite files, which I deleted 3 of them. Still was having the issue und had only looked in C:/ which is what a possible solution gave in which I deleted the files as suggested, no where did it mention looking in Roaming under Firefox's profile folder; only in C:/.

However, I found three more places.sqlite files in the profile folder. I deleted those und now I am not experiencing the issue.

So, thank you for mentioning the profiles folder.

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If that entry has a star then it is a bookmark and you would have to remove this bookmark.

You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.

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It was never a bookmark, like...ever. However, I did successfully fix the issue with your help. Not regarding anything towards bookmarks, though.


You mentioned the FIrefox Profile Folder, which I had to dig in Roaming to get to. I had searched my computer without going into roaming to delete the places.sqlite files, which I deleted 3 of them. Still was having the issue und had only looked in C:/ which is what a possible solution gave in which I deleted the files as suggested, no where did it mention looking in Roaming under Firefox's profile folder; only in C:/.

However, I found three more places.sqlite files in the profile folder. I deleted those und now I am not experiencing the issue.

So, thank you for mentioning the profiles folder.