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Unlearning is a great option. I have in Firefox a persistent autocompletion for a URL that I typo'd once, which still shows before the one I've been to a thousand times (because it's first alphabetically, I suppose?)

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You can use Shift+Delete on an entry to remove it from the autocomplete list.

Not easily on a Mocbook Pro, which doesn't have a Delete key. Shift+Backspace doesn't work.

Really? I have a five-year-old MBP with a key labeled "Delete" (although it really seems to be "Backspace").

On MacBooks the combination of Fn+Backspace mimics Delete. So Shift+Fn+Backspace to remove a suggestion.

My biggest gripe with Firefox's history bar is that it's so slow to update that I'll go to click something, and then the whole list scrolls down or up and I now click something entirely different.

Even with search autocomplete disabled it takes forever just to search the history.

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