Delete individual URL from Firefox and IE

Every link that you type in the address bar will be stored in History and those links can be deleted all at once by clearing the history. Have you ever tried to delete individual URL from Internet Explorer or Firefox? You can't simply hit the delete button to remove it.

A faster way to delete individual URL from Internet Explorer adress bar is by using
IE5 Address Bar Editor (it can be used for IE7) or StompSoft’s Digital File Shredder Pro.

Anyway, I prefer to do it manually. I'll show you how to do it in Firefox first because it's just a piece of cake. The Internet Explorer is the tricky one because it involves the modification of registry.

Mozilla Firefox
1. SHIFT-DELETE the url and you are done!.

Internet Explorer

1. Close your IE.
2. Run regedit.exe from Start > Run.

Note: It is advisable to backup your registry by exporting that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.

3. Go to the following key : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
4. Delete all numbered URLs that you don’t want to appear in IE address bar. If you delete only certain keys, make sure you rename the URLs in sequential order starting from url1 otherwise you might corrupt the other URLs.
5. Close regedit.exe

[via]: Raymond CC

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