How to Delete Items From Internet Address Bar

A person who wants to delete individual URLs from the address bar has either entered a faulty address by virtue of a typing error or has something to hide, with the latter being the one that occurs most often. If you want to delete individual URLs, you can easily do it in Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox. In the previous versions of Internet Explorer, you can do it, but you'll have to edit the Registry. People who use Safari are out of luck, because that browser isn't yet capable of this action.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the browser.

2. Click on the drop-down arrow on the address bar and the entries will appear.

3. Scroll down to the link you want to delete in Internet Explorer 8 and a red "X" will appear on the right side of the entry. Click on the red "X" to delete the entry.

4. Scroll down to the link you want to delete in Firefox and press "Ctrl" and "Delete" to delete the entry.

5. Close the browser and open it back up to confirm that the entry has been deleted.

Other Versions of Internet Explorer

6. Click on the "Start" icon and the Start Menu will appear.

7. Click on "Run..." and type "regedit" in the allotted space and click on "OK."

8. Go to the "Typed URLs" entry by clicking on the following keys:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER
   Software
   Microsoft
   Internet Explorer
   Typed URLs

9. Right-click on the URL entries you want to delete in the right pane and click on "Delete" to get rid of them.

10. Close the Registry Editor and open Internet Explorer. Click on the address bar drop-down arrow and the URLs you deleted are no longer there.

Tips & Warnings

• Individual entries can't be deleted in the Safari Web browser. You have to clear the history, the bookmarks and the cache to clear all the urls from the browser.

References

• Delete or Change URLs in Address Bar Dropdown List