How to make Safari NOT remember websites

Hi Brian

There are a number of files feeding the URL prompts including Bookmarks, Cache, History. You would have to do some significant housecleaning to pare down the list. Until Apple changes how these things work, the easiest way is to press the space bar once before typing the address.

I unchecked the boxes in the "autofill" section of the Safari preferences.

I do get a scrolldown of sites appearing when entering any letter beyond www. at the navigation bar—but only of those previously visited sites that are also bookmarked.

Another file possibly feeding the prompts is the Metadata file in your User Library>Caches>Metadata>Safari folder. Move the Safari folder to the desktop and restart Safari. See if that reduces the list.

From Mac OS X: The Missing Manual. To delete one: click the book icon at the left end of the Bookmarks bar; in the resulting Bookmarks organizer wndow, click History. Expand the relevant date triangle, highlight the offending address, and then press your Delete key. Click the book icon again to return to normal browsing. He also says you could erase the entire History menu by choosing History>clear history.

He then suggests using Private Browsing in the future: Safari>Private Browsing. You would also then have to erase cookies: Safai>Preferences>Security.

Good Luck.

Not a true answer to your question, but if you select Private Browsing in the pull down menu under Safari in your tool bar before your surf, no history of any kind will be recorded or remembered. It will automatically reset when you log out of Safari.

select private browsing, it's that easy.

Brian are you from MA? Billerica MA?