Netscape Navigator 3.x
Clear the History Folder
Only the last 15 websites you typed into the Location bar text field will be listed. Since only the last entries you typed are stored, the easiest method of clearing unwanted entries is to type a number of websites to displace those currently listed.
In order to completely clear all URLs:
Clearing the location bar URL history involves editing a Netscape data file.
Note: Incorrectly editing this file could prevent Communicator from launching or working properly. Before you edit the file, make a back up copy of it.
- Go to your Communicator profile folder on your hard drive. If you have installed in the default location, it is likely located at:
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\{Profile_Name}\...
- Find the prefs.js file.
- Copy this file to a safe location on a floppy disk or elsewhere on your hard drive.
After making a copy of the file, you can edit the original:
- Close Communicator.
- Open a text editor such as Windows Notepad. You can get to the notepad quickly by going to the Windows Start menu, selecting Run and typing notepad.
- From the File menu, select Open.
- Locate
C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\{Profile_Name}\prefs.js.
- Click once to highlight it and click on the Open button.
- Search for lines that look like the following:
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_4",
"http://help.netscape.com/");
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_5",
"developer.netscape.com/");
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_6",
"ftp://ftp.netscape.com/");
- Only delete the lines that begin with:
user_pref("browser.url_history.URL...
- When you have successfully deleted these lines, ensure that you have left spaces between the remaining lines and save the file by clicking on File and selecting Save As.
- Save as prefs.js
Open Netscape and the entries should be gone.
If the same web addresses appear in the Location toolbar URL History when you restart Netscape, visit the following Netscape Technical Article for further help:
http://help.netscape.com/kb/consumer/19981212-2.html