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Browsing and editing saved form data in Firefox

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Is anyone familiar with a way to browse and edit/delete saved form entries in Firefox? I know I can:

  • Delete all form data, using the Clear Private Data dialog;
  • Delete specific entries in a form using shift-delete when the cursor is over them (*).

What I want is a way to see all saved entries for a specific keyword, edit them, and easily delete all or selectively.

I expected to find a plugin that does it, but couldn't find any. Maybe someone wrote one but haven't submitted it yet? Or maybe someone just wrote an external tool that manipulates the formhistory.sqlite file?

Thanks.

(*) For those of you that don't know this: go to your favorite search engine's search box, and press the down key to see the history. Shift-delete will delete the "current" entry from saved form data.

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noamtm Avatar asked Nov 19 '08 14:11

noamtm


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2 Answers

The SQLite Manager extension can open the formhistory.sqlite file (as well as any other .sqlite file in a Firefox profile folder) and make it available for adding, editing, and deleting records with the simple GUI.

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Cactus Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 18:09

Cactus


They're stored in an sqlite database in your profile directory (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx), in a file called formhistory.sqlite.

You can download the sqlite client to browse and edit the database.

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Greg Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 18:09

Greg