Browsing and editing saved form data in Firefox

Question

Hi,

Is anyone familiar with a way to browse and edit/delete saved form entries in Firefox? I know I can:

• Delete all form data, using the Clear Private Data dialog;
• Delete specific entries in a form using shift-delete when the cursor is over them (*).

What I want is a way to see all saved entries for a specific keyword, edit them, and easily delete all or selectively.

I expected to find a plugin that does it, but couldn't find any. Maybe someone wrote one but haven't submitted it yet? Or maybe someone just wrote an external tool that manipulates the formhistory.sqlite file?

Thanks.

(*) For those of you that don't know this: go to your favorite search engine's search box, and press the down key to see the history. Shift-delete will delete the "current" entry from saved form data.

Answer 1

They're stored in an sqlite database in your profile directory (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxx), in a file called formhistory.sqlite.

You can download the sqlite client to browse and edit the database.

Answer 2

There is a Firefox extension called SQLite Manager that can open the formhistory.sqlite file (as well as any other .sqlite's from a Firefox profile folder) and make it available for adding, editing, and deleting the records of that file within the simple GUI.