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Why does FireFox save random web pages?

SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
FireFox 3.

Example:

If I were to clear my cache and personal settings completely, and then in the URL bar begin to type forums.penny-arcade.com, it will auto fill the URL bar with a thread that I've seen before, but do not have saved in any form or function.

It does this across multiple computers, but never the same page. It gets embarrassing too, because on my laptop it has decided to save the URL to a porn vid.

A forum I visit is called Forever Doomed. For some reason, when I go to type it in in the URL bar, it immediately pops in this URL.

http://foreverdoomed.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7471

I've never even looked in this thread because I don't care about that band. But FireFox fucking INSISTS that I check that shit out.

What's up?

Sheep on

Posts

  • wabbitehwabbiteh Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Firefox automatically searches your bookmarks, too. Do you have that forum thread bookmarked?

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  • AiranAiran Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Solution: Disable the "Awesomebar".

    This thread is 6 months old, so there might be some way to delete your awesome bar results now, but as it stands it's probably better to disable it altogether if you visit 'questionable' sites :winky:

    [edit]A bit down the thread, some nice suggestions.

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  • wabbitehwabbiteh Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Haven't used this extension, but it seems like it might help, if the problem is bookmarks:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7429

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it sounds like you should be using chrome

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Thanks fellas.

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