[PLUG] Firefox: remove incorrect 'place'

Tim Abraldes timabraldes at gmail.com
Wed Dec 7 00:22:56 UTC 2016


I would think that the solution is to remove that entry from your history
(by navigating to your history in the Firefox UI and deleting the entry
there). I'm not in front of my machine to test that theory.

On Dec 6, 2016 14:37, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    Some time in the past I inadvertently entered the URL as
> slackbuilds.com
> rather than as slackbuilds.org. Now, every time I open a tab and start
> typing the URL firefox automatically fills in the .com version.
>
>    In ~/.mozilla/firefox/83.../ I grep'd for the .com name and found it in
> places.sqlite. Opening that database I checked the moz_places table and
> found that row; deleted it.
>
>    But, it still autofills even after killing firefox and restarting it. I
> cannot find it in another database or non-binary file and have no idea
> where
> to locate the offending name. Is there a way to find and remove it?
>
> Rich
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