How do I clear recent searches from Safari and Google?

Thanks for this information, but even after clearing my cache and switching to privacy mode, Safari still wants to autofill the url tab based on sites I have visited.

Thank you for your very helpful advice. I have spent so much time trying to find what your have presented right here.

want web searches deleted, from popping up, every time a new search is entered

Thank you! I really appreciate you!!!

Great info been looking at finding how to do this fo a while on the mac and ticks the box for me. Thanks

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 :)

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Thanks for this information, but even after clearing my cache and switching to privacy mode, Safari still wants to autofill the url tab based on sites I have visited.

awesome! its works thxxx

OMG ThaNK you SO MUCH!!!! YOU sAVED MY LifE! i was searching so stuff that i didnt want my mom sister or even friends to see. (ehem....nude people and sex and other things) but thank god for you!!!!!! i was up all night searching and searching but no luck until you cam alon! you have no idea how happy i am and i couldnt be more grateful. Thanksk again and i hops yoour life brings wealth and happiness because you SO deserve it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i want to clear all sex search history

Gday Dave,
I downloaded the Safari beta when it was first released and think its great, however I cannot clear the autofill form. The edit button is greyed-out and unclickable, and the previous form entries keep appearing even after I empty the cache and reset all features of Safari. I'm going to re-download and reinstall, but for reference, do you know where Safari stores the autofill info? I'm on XP.
Cheers,
Dash

Hi Dave, i tried to use your suggestion to clear all the words which i have put into the google site which are unwanted but keep poppoing up...it doesnt seem to work, in the auto fill "other forms" section it only lists site which i have typed in and been too, it does not show nor give me the option to delete words which i have searched...any advice ?

hi,

If you have a url in your bookmarks it will come up when you type in the address bar something starting with the same letters.

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THANK YOU. I use my computer for teaching, and what may be totally appropriate everywhere else may still not be suitable for the classroom overhead.

Your site is so helpful!!! thank you so much!

Thanks, Dave. You made it easy to do something that other web sites made so complicated it was impossible.

Thanks for this helpful tip! I was going crazy on google trying to figure it out by pressing
"delete"

This is a great tutorial! Only problem for me is after this step:

"To clear this you need to tweak your Autofill preferences. Go to Safari --> Preferences and click on the Autofill tab."

My stupid computer won't even let me see ANY Safari preferences, let alone the ones for autofill. I've tried re-downloading Safari and everything, and one website I went to said to delete the com.apple.Safari.plist file that's in my library. Do you have any suggestions? :(

god bless you

This is great but is it possible to delete some items from the Google search box and not others?

thank you very much. you are so great!!!

wow thanks for the graphic info

Thank You so much!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I don't have to worry about anything

thanks alot i had no idea it was that complicated

thaaaaaank you! ;)

THANK YOU SO MUCH! i always wondered how i could disable the autofill.

Thanks for trying, but your advice does not work. It is not possible to turn off the Safari URL autofill function or to delete the URL already stored "somewhere" which pop into the URL window uninvited. Neither the "geniuses" at the apple stores or their on-line consultants are able to fix this annoying problem. After spending several hours on the phone with one of apple's consultants some time ago, he gave up and told me "Safari is really poor browser anyway; just use Firefox if you want to avoid this problem."

If you ever find a fix for this annoying behavior I would love to hear about it but clearing the cache, history, all the rest you have mentioned DO NOT WORK.

Dear Dave - how do you make it all so simple? You are surely the eighth wonder of the world! Thank you -

Pat

This is great! You are the best! :)

Dear Dave,

Thanks for the clear description on removing autofill from the google search box. No wonder your so successful in life.

David
Santa Cruz, CA

Hello Dave ... as JOHN REEVES above (24 May 2008 at 3:20 PM) points out, your suggestion (which I'd actually found out myself and tried before seeing your recommendation) seems to only PARTIALLY work, at best.

EVEN AFTER doing the "Safari-Preferences-Autofill-Other Forms-Remove" etc. etc. ... you will still find that Safari Autofills URLs if you begin manually typing them in after the http:// ...

It's almost as if Safari does not "want" to clear sites that you have manually typed in. That's just a guess ... I don't know for sure ... I DO KNOW that the suggestion provided does not FULLY work.

Just thought I'd put this out there in case someone knows why ... or has a workaround solution.

I also had the problem, that after trying your methods, the various pages continued to pop up in the safari browser. So, I went one more step that Dave hadn't mentioned:
Click on Safari > Reset Safari >
and you'll get a list of 9 choices you can select to "edit", like "clear history", "empty the cache", "remove all cookies", etc.
I selected lines 1,2,4,7 &8, and so I don't know which one really did it, but I got rid of all the unmentionables (just in time before my Kids came home for the 4th).
Oddly enough, Safari still retains NPR.org, all the www.Mac & www.apple addresses, and other innocent sites!
Thanks, Dave, and everybody!
K
PS, I don't know why anyone would've advised that Safari "is a poor browser", this whole Mac think is so much better than the PC world!