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Geek Culture / Getting rid of the text stored in text boxes in IE?

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Fallout
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Posted: 8th Feb 2005 06:48
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How do I get rid of the text that pops up in text boxes like search boxes in IE? Killing off cookies and history doesn't work. I'm tired of getting paranoid what my girlfriend will find when she does a search on google using my computer. To many naughty searches and no effort at covering my tracks.

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David T
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Posted: 8th Feb 2005 06:53
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You could clear autocomplete or for more selective deletion press delete while you've highlighted an autocomplete option.

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Neofish
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Posted: 8th Feb 2005 06:55
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Deltree /y




There is an option in the bit to get rid of history to get rid of the autoforms

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stupid kid
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Posted: 8th Feb 2005 07:11
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Use firefox, firefox is alot better than internet explorer

http://www.getfirefox.com

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Mucky Muck Ninja
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Posted: 8th Feb 2005 07:14
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ya it is. I got it after noticing that I got about 4 spyware apps while on IE doing NORMAL things in about 5 minutes. I get NONE with firefox. + its free so i like it alot.

Am I an Idiot...or is everyone else just really smart?
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bitJericho
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Posted: 9th Feb 2005 04:44
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when will you all realize that it's only free because they can't sell it, no one would buy it


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Ian T
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Posted: 9th Feb 2005 06:03
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Quote: "no one would buy it"


Yeah... because IE is free. If both were on sale for equivilant prices, Microsoft would have nothing but sloppy seconds in the browser market

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Sage Tech Admin
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tsk, tsk , nuaghty searches a? when will you learn, when!? hmmm, google keeps the searches intact? if so you could use system restore if you have windows xp, then i dont think google would keep it, but im not sure. My friend did that and said it worked. (i have some perverted kids in my school)
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GothOtaku
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Posted: 11th Feb 2005 09:06
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Quote: "For now I must say...FIREFOX or Die!!!"

And what about Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, and Galeon?
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blanky
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Posted: 11th Feb 2005 18:42
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Mozilla, Netscape, and Mozilla Firefox all use Gekko (or was it Gecko?).

Only difference is the interface, and only Firefox is being continued.

Konqueror's a nice browser. If I was using Linux I would keep it installed, like I keep IE on Windows.

I can't really comment on Opera, Mac's Safari and Galeon. I don't even know what the last one is.

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David T
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 00:34
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Quote: "I got it after noticing that I got about 4 spyware apps while on IE doing NORMAL things in about 5 minutes."


What on earth were you doing to it?!?

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newbi 2 basic
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 01:39
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they cant make IE open source cause that would be like having the whole GUI for windows open source..... thats how tied into the OS Internet explorer is. you cannot just remove it easy either.

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GothOtaku
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Posted: 12th Feb 2005 04:16
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Quote: "Only difference is the interface, and only Firefox is being continued."

Common misconception. Originally, yes, they were going to discontinue Mozilla Suite and Netscape. However, Mozilla has decided to keep Mozilla Suite due to it's wide adoption in many buisnesses and Netscape is back in development using Firefox code.

Quote: "I can't really comment on Opera, Mac's Safari and Galeon. I don't even know what the last one is."

Galeon is a Gecko based web browser that is planned to be discributed with the GNOME desktop for Linux. It's esentially there only since KDE has Konqueror.
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