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How to get rid of the Automatic typing on the location bar

How do you manually get rid of the automatic typing feature (i.e. delete history) in the location spot of both Netscape and IE. The function of the browser that fills in the address for you when you put in a partial address.

Member_2_242582

In IE5, go to internet options, content.
There is a button with the text Autocomplete. There you can change the autocomplete settings.

Arjan.

clckwrkorange

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How about Netscape?

andriv

For Netscape go to "edit" "preferences" select "navigator" and change "page in history expires after ___ days" to 0 days.

pauljaymes

Don't think that expires the recently-type list andriv - only what links show up as purple instead of blue (or whatever colours are defined).

Way you can do it though is to edit the prefs.js file with notepad - this is located in the user profile folder (usually program files/netscape/users/<username>).

You should be able to just delete the lines near the top containing those URLs and save. If you're unsure you should copy the file before editing it in case it goes wrong.

TTom

NS 4.7 Preferences offers an option under "Navigator" to "Clear Location Bar History". Sounds like a kludge, since there doesn't seem to be an option for making that the "default", but it may be the best you will find.

Tom

pauljaymes

"kludge" - I love that word - it means so little but describes so much :-) I think I'll have to include it in a "Dictionary of front line IT" sometime...

andriv

With NS 4.7 after I set the value to 0 it does not auto-complete at all. Give it a try. Unless, it's a glitch on my browser that will solve the problem.

clckwrkorange

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