Clear Firefox history
- Windows onlyThis script improves your privacy on Windows
- Multiple actionsThis page belongs to a category, containing some changes with similar goal.
- Impact: High
System Functionality / Data Loss Risk: High
This action improves privacy with high impact when you run the recommended script.
- Batch (batchfile)These changes use Windows system commands to update your settings.
- 2 scripts
- No subcategories
- Administrator rights requiredThis script requires privilege access to do the system changes
- Fully reversible
You can fully restore this action (revert back to the original behavior) using this website.
The restore/revert methods provided here can help you fix issues.
Overview
This category encompasses a series of scripts aimed at helping users manage and delete their browsing history and related data in Mozilla Firefox.
The scripts are designed to target different aspects of user data stored by Firefox, providing users options for maintaining privacy and freeing up disk space.
This script should only be used by advanced users.
This script is not recommended for daily use as it breaks important functionality.
Consider creating a system restore point before doing any changes.
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Choose one of two ways to apply:
Download script
Download and run the script directly- No app needed
- Offline usage
- Easy-to-apply
- Free
- Open-source
Maximum — Strongest Possible Privacy (Military-Grade)
- Military-grade privacy protection
- Major system impact
- Consider having system restore point.
Read more about Maximum and other protection levels
Help
How to apply "Clear Firefox history" using script
- ≈ 2 min to complete
- Tools: Web Browser
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 5 instructions
- 1
Download
Download the script file by clicking on the button above. - 2
Keep the file
If warned by your browser, keep the file. - 3
Open
Open the downloaded file. - 4
Exit
Once it's done, press any key to exit the window. - 5
Restart
Restart your computer for all changes to take effect.
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- Includes safety checks
- Shows the code
- Free
- Open-source
- Popular
- Offline/Online usage
Help
How to apply "Clear Firefox history" using privacy.sexy
- ≈ 3 min to complete
- Tools: privacy.sexy
- Difficulty: Simple
- ≈ 4 instructions
- 2
Choose script
- Search for the category name: Clear Firefox history
- Check the category by clicking on the checkbox of the category.
- 3
Run
Click on ▶️ Run button at the bottom of the page.This button only appears on desktop version (recommended). On browser, use 💾 Save button.
Explore This Guide
- 2 Privacy settings
Choose what to protect based on your needs: Click any option to learn more about what it does. Each change can be applied and reversed individually.
Some settings and commands may require technical knowledge to apply correctly.
Clear Firefox browsing history (URLs, downloads, bookmarks, visits, etc.)
This script targets the Firefox browsing history, including URLs, downloads, bookmarks, and site visits, by deleting specific database entries. Firefox stores various user data in a file named "places.sqlite". This file includes: Annotations, bookmarks, and favorite icons ("mozannoattributes", "mozannos", "mozfavicons") • Browsing history, a record of pages visited ("mozplaces", "mozhistoryvisits") • Keywords and typed URLs ("mozkeywords", "mozinputhistory") • Item annotations (`moz_item...
Clear all Firefox user information and preferences
This script performs a reset of Mozilla Firefox, erasing all user profiles, settings, and personalized data to restore the browser to its default state. Firefox user profiles, encompassing bookmarks, browsing history, passwords, extensions, themes, and preferences. These folders are in: "C:\\Documents and Settings\\\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\" on Windows XP and earlier, • "%APPDATA%\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\" on Windows 10 an...
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History
We continually monitor our guides, their impact and all other privacy options. We update our guides when new information becomes available. On every update, we publicly store who made the change, what has been changed, why the change was made and when the change was made.