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Selective Cache

right click to delete history from specific forms

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I do many kinds of browsing. In some cases having form history is useful like when I use Dunn and Bradstreet to research companies. In this case I want to record my trails so I could reuse it later. But for other things like Google where I sometimes view 'irrelevant' content there may be a need to delete often. I know there is a blanket method to delete through the browser itself but if there was a feature were one could right click on a form box and select the option 'delete history from only this form or page' this would be useful.

—	nomadic_wonderer, Apr 06 2006

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Tell us more about this 'irrelevant' content which it's so important to have deleted...

—	hippo, Apr 06 2006

'irrelevant' content..... Let me explain.... the other day a coworker stormed into my office she quickly needed to get more information on 'Asian flu' unfortunately typing in the word Asian on the search form showed a completely different entry. That's what I mean by 'irrelevant' content.

—	nomadic_wonderer, Apr 06 2006

does a coworker not spend most of their time out in the milking sheds?

—	xenzag, Apr 06 2006

I'd probably forget to clean up after myself until it's too late - I'd rather have some way of entering and exiting a "stealth mode" where my inputs aren't hashed into the field autocompletion cache.

—	jutta, Apr 06 2006

Good luck with that.

The feds are looking at everything anyway. TIA, Carnivore, Eschelon, or whatever name they're giving it today. Not to mention employers.

—	sophocles, Apr 06 2006

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