Describe deletion of items from some of the dropdowns.

Dropdowns in autocomplete, awesomebar, bookmarks, history, and search

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Deleting History items and items in dropdowns (#delete)

Deleting History items

To clear when it shows up on the location bar autocomplete search ("AwesomeBar"), move cursor over the line so that it highlights then press the Del key.  Items with Stars are bookmarks, items with tag icons are icons, both are bookmarks and the bookmarks will not be deleted in this manner from the location bar dropdown.

From History (Ctrl+H) and from a search from History click to the left of the icon, once selected press Del key.

To delete multiple selected items, you can Ctrl+click separately on several items before using Del.  If you have a range you can use Shift+click to extend a selection, or from a restrictive search you can use Ctrl+A to select all before using Del key.

Deleting Bookmark items

Should be much the same as the above.  From Bookmarks Sidebar (Ctrl+B) or from "Organize Bookmooks" (in Places it is Library listing from bookmarks menu or from Ctrl+Shift+B).

About:config items of interest config

Selections from about:config MozillaZine documentation were roughly based on keywords: autocomplete History deleting OR delete OR del

browser. urlbar. autoFill Boolean True: Enables inline autocomplete.
False (default): Opposite of above.
browser. urlbar. filter. javascript Boolean True (default): Filter out “javascript:” URLs from appearing in the Location Bar autocomplete dropdown.
False: Allow “javascript:” URLs to appear in the dropdown.
browser. urlbar. matchOnlyTyped Boolean Determines behavior of autocomplete in Location Bar
True: Only matches typing against URLs specifically typed into Location Bar
False (default): Match against history
browser. urlbar. matchOnWordBoundary Boolean Determines behavior of autocomplete0pt; background-color: yellow; color: black; display: inline; font-size: inherit;">autocomplete in Location Bar
True (default): Use word boundaries when searching for typed text in the Location Bar autocomplete.
False: Search anywhere within available text, irrespective of word boundaries.
browser. urlbar. filter. javascript Boolean True (default): Filter out “javascript:” URLs from appearing in the Location Bar autocomplete dropdown.
False: Allow “javascript:” URLs to appear in the autocomplete0pt; background-color: yellow; color: black; display: inline; font-size: inherit;">dropdown.
browser. urlbar. maxRichResults Integer Determines how many entries should appear (at most) in the dropdown in Location Bar.
browser. history_expire_days Integer Number of maximum days to remember visited pages in history. Default value is 9 for SeaMonkey and Firefox 2, 180 for Firefox 3.
Note: In Firefox 2, this can be changed via "Tools → Options → Privacy → History → Remember visited pages for the last ___ days". No UI for Firefox 3.
browser. history_expire_days_min Integer Number of minimum days to remember visited pages in history. Default value is 90.
Note: In Firefox 3, this can be changed via “Keep my history for at least ___ days” under “Tools → Options → Privacy → History”
browser. history_expire_sites Integer Maximum number of websites to keep in history. Default value is 40000.
Browser. urlbar. search. chunkSizeIntegeritems that appear in the dropdown are retrieved in batches (“chunks”) on a timer.  This preference determines the number of items to fetch at a time.  Default is 1000.
Browser.urlbar.search.timeout Integerdetermines the time between fetching batches.  Number of milliseconds to wait between fetching batches of dropdown items. Default is 100 (1/10th of a second)
Bookmarklets;  There are a lot of links on this page.  The following BookMarklets (Favelets) will distinguish between internal or external links.  First click on "highlight links",  and then on "int/ext links".  Your browser's Reset button (F5) will reload the original unmodified web page. 
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