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Billybohiggus - May 30, 2005 - 2:28 pm

When I am using Safari (I use version 1.3) and begin typing in a wedsite address and "window" drops down and shows a list of some of the websites I have been to in the past. If I type in www.A.... it starts with all the A websites I have looked at etc.
How do I erase this history and prevent it from being recorded?
Thanks for the help!

earthsaver - May 30, 2005 - 9:26 pm

Address autocomplete is part of the functionality of the browser History and of Bookmarks. You can clear your history at the bottom of the History menu. I don't know, however, of any third party utility that turns off the History function. (Safari 2.0, in Tiger, contains a Private Browsing feature that allows this.)

Further, I don't think you can turn off autocomplete. It's there to make browsing easier. If this is not the case for you, then you need to invest in a more full-featured browser like OmniWeb, which allows you to turn off auto completion.

- Ben