# How can I clear the suggested log in names in Firefox?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 30, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clear-the-suggested-log-in-names-in-firefox/537843 "2010-04-30T06:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clear-the-suggested-log-in-names-in-firefox/537843/1 "2010-04-30T06:52:41Z")

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I’ve got some micro-keyboard on my netbook and it’s pretty damn difficult to type accurately. So, I’ve actually got weird login-parts of password suggested sign ins that I very much want to get rid of. Is this an OS thing or a cookies thing? I don’t mind the suggested log in name, but I just want to clear out all the suggested names for a login name at particular sites.

I also suspect that my touch pad is overly sensitive to the occasional bruch of body protuberance and causes some weirdo random space vectorization of the cursor. I guess I should just choose plain vanilla touchpad response, but I do like some of the functionality.

In any case, how do I clear out the suggested list of login names at a particular web site.

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**Author:** ![\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/eada6e/32.png) [@\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Undecided_Adrian)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clear-the-suggested-log-in-names-in-firefox/537843/2 "2010-04-30T12:22:40Z")

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You just press the down arrow with the cursor in the field, select the offending entries and press delete.

To disable the behaviour altogether, there’s an option under settings \> privacy.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-clear-the-suggested-log-in-names-in-firefox/537843/3 "2010-04-30T17:22:17Z")

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> Adrian;12401001’]You just press the down arrow with the cursor in the field, select the offending entries and press delete.
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> To disable the behaviour altogether, there’s an option under settings \> privacy.

Thanks, those were the answers I was looking for. Works great.