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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by blibble on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:34PM (#27363354)
I switched from gmail to another provider and I just couldn't get rid of "gmail" when searching for "mail"

deleting and re-importing history/bookmarks did nothing, but what did eventually work was opening the sqlite table and deleting the rows manually...

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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by ProAm on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:57PM (#27371037)
Silly question and I know I can google it but how hard was it to change the sqllite table? (identifying the records, etc..)
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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by blibble on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:01PM (#27373975)
very easy

I found the file with strings | grep (was "places.sqlite")

sqlite3 places.sqlite then found the row with .dump, then deleted with DELETE FROM moz_places WHERE id = XXX:

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