Please note that clearing history will clear ALL addresses in the history buffer; if you want to keep some or most, there seems to be no way to do this in the current versions of the software I've seen; my browser won't even allow me to cut and paste the whole thing. I can, of course, cut and paste individual lines; since there are about six sites I like to have in the hisory buffer, I can clear it and retype those few sites in less than a minute.

However: this is a thing that any two-bit (or, preferably, thirty-two-bit) programmer could take care of: it should be possible to edit the history file from the address bar, delete any item, and copy all or some of it to another file, etc. Microsoft, of course, isn't bout to listen to anybody, but maybe the folks at Mozilla...?

I had a friend who kept about fifty or a hundred sites in his address bar and used them regularly; for people like me, clearing the history buffer and starting over is fine; for people like him, getting rid of unwanted individual entries would be quite a convenience.