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   Aluddy to Dwain Wilder   
   Re: Netscape 8: Clear Form Information   
   04 Jun 05 18:00:35   
   
   From: aluddy.appendix@adelphia.net   
      
   Dwain Wilder wrote:   
      
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   > Tomi Häsä wrote:   
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   >> Doug G wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Tomi Häsä wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> It seems like there is no function/option in Netscape 8.0.1   
   >>>> (Windows 2000 SP4) to clear the form information to delete   
   >>>> searches made with Google (or with some other search engine).   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> The Search button next to the search box on 8.0.1's Navigation   
   >>> toolbar has a down arrow on it.  When the arrow is clicked, a   
   >>> drop down menu appears with "Clear search history" on it.  Is   
   >>> that what you're looking for?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> No. That doesn't clear other form information typed into to various web   
   >> pages like Google _Advanced_ Search, Google _Groups_, Google Groups   
   >> Advanced Search, Google Images, Google News, Froogle, AltaVista,   
   >> Yahoo!, MSN Search, HotBot, Teoma, Lycos, Mamma Metasearch, etc. There   
   >> should be one button to clear _all_ the form information saved by   
   >> Netscape.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Well I for one would cringe at the thought of putting in such a button.   
   > Why would one possibly want to clear all forms?   
      
   Someone using a shared or public computer.   
      
   I can't even remember   
   > all the forms I've filled out--that's the very reason it's handy to have   
   > a form-fill facility in the first place. So pushing such a button would   
   > come back to haunt me sometime in the future when I was asked for   
   > something on a form I'd forgotten about and no longer knew the correct   
   > answer that I'd used before.   
   >   
   > Just my 2 cents.   
   >   
   > Dwain   
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   Andy Luddy   
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