I want to prevent urls of specific domains from being saved or shown in my history. For instance, I don't want any of google's search result pages to be saved in my history since then when I use the awesomebar I get a lot of google's search results, which are of no use to me.

Of course I can keep on deleting them, but I would like a way to specify that any url starting with www.google.com shouldn't be saved.

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I still have yet to explore how this can be done manually.
But for now you can use HistoryBlock Addon. I believe it answers your requirements.

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Thanks, Dwarf -- that's exactly what I was looking for.... – Joe Casadonte Oct 12 '09 at 17:56
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Use Private Browsing for those URLs.

What Private Browsing will not retain

  • Visited pages: No pages will be added to the list of sites in the History menu, the Library window's History list, or the Smart Location Bar's address list.
  • Form and Search Bar entries: Nothing you enter into text boxes on web page forms or the Search bar will be added to the list of entries for Form autocomplete.
  • Passwords: no passwords will be automatically filled in during the your Private Browsing session, and no new passwords will be saved.
  • Download List entries: No files you download will remain in the list in the Downloads window after you turn off Private Browsing.
  • Cookies: Files created by websites, that store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site (when a website has a "remember this" checkbox, it is using a cookie) will not be stored. For more information on cookies, see Cookies.
  • Web cache files: No temporary Internet files or cached files from web pages will be saved until you turn off Private Browsing.

I'm not sure whether you can configure it for specific URLs though.

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