Table of Contents. Using Auto Form Fill To use your previous entry in a form:. Type the first few letters of the entry into the form field. Firefox will display a drop-down menu with what you've typed into the form before. You may see a list of all the entries stored for a particular form field by pressing the ↓ key when the field is empty. Press the ↓ key to select the entry you want to re-use.
Press Enter Return when the appropriate entry is highlighted. The text of the entry will appear in the form field. You may also use the mouse to click on the entry. Deleting individual form entries If you want to remove one of your previous form entries from Firefox's history:. Click on the form field and press the ↓ key to display all the saved entries.
You may type the first few letters of the entry to limit the number of entries displayed. Use the ↓ key or the mouse pointer to highlight the entry you wish to delete. Press Shift+ Delete. The entry will be removed. Repeat the process for each entry that you'd like to delete. Clearing form history If you want Firefox to forget all of your previous form entries:. Click on the Library button menu button.
Click History, and then Clear Recent History. In the Time Range to clear: drop-down, choose Everything. Click on the arrow next to Details to display the list of items that you can clear. Make sure Form & Search History has a check mark next to it. Click Clear Now to clear your form history and close the dialog box. Prevent Firefox from storing form entries If you don't want Firefox to remember what you've entered into form fields, you can turn off the auto form fill feature:. Click the menu button and choose Options.
Select the Privacy Privacy & Security panel. In the drop-down menu next to Firefox will: Firefox will, choose Use custom settings for history. Remove the check mark next to Remember search and form history. Close the about:preferences page. Any changes you've made will automatically be saved.
Disabling form history also prevents Firefox from storing search history for the in the Navigation Toolbar. Troubleshooting If you find that Firefox does not save your form entries and you cannot re-use them, please read the article. Based on information from Share this article.
Anyhow, if you want to disable automatic updates for both your apps and for your system, you can do those things in two different places. For that app setting, start by clicking on the Apple Menu in the upper-left corner of your screen and choosing “App Store.” Once you get there, you can check for any new versions that exist under the “Updates” tab but to stop your apps from updating automatically, you’ll instead choose App Store Preferences. Under that window, just deselect the “Automatic Updates” checkbox to stop your apps from doing their own thing. This, of course, will mean that you’ll have to revisit the App Store occasionally to update them on your own. For macOS updates, you’ll instead visit System Preferences. To get there, go back to the Apple Menu and choose “System Preferences” (naturally), but once that window opens, click on “Software Update.” When that pane loads, you can deselect the “Automatically keep my Mac up to date” checkbox at the bottom, which will leave certain types of updates on, as the warning you’ll get when you do that notes.
Or if you’d prefer, you can click on the “Advanced” button to individually select what items you’d like to have automatically update—and which ones you don’t want to give that power to. As you can see, you could also use this “Advanced” section to disable “Install app updates from the App Store,” so you can use this to change that preference I mentioned above, too. Um, that makes sense, I guess?
Settings like these are important, of course, when you’re in an environment where updates could become problematic (if you’re using critical third-party software, for example, that may not be compatible with new OS updates right away). It’s nice to know that we can control these things, though! For anyone familiar with Apple over the years you’d know Auto Update is the worse thing ever as Apple tends to SCREW UP updated apps more than make them better.
Let’s just take Mail for example – ever since Sierra Apple removed the ability to “delete messages from server” for no damn good reason causing Webmail servers to load up with mail – again for no damn reason. A DISASTER over the years – thankfully I have a Mac with Snow Leopard and hundreds of free iTunes radio stations long since removed – for ONE damn reason – $$$$ Read more ».