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==Background==
==Background==
Firefox 3 introduced a number of improvements to the [[:Category:Location Bar|Location Bar]]. Among them were changes to how sites are ordered in the dropdown menu. Firefox takes into account how frequently and how recently sites in the browser history were visited, combining them into a statistic called “frecency.” The frecency of sites is calculated when the browser is idle. The way frecency is computed can be tweaked by a number of preferences.
Firefox 3 introduced a number of improvements to the [[:Category:Location Bar|Location Bar]]. Among them were changes to how sites are ordered in the dropdown menu. Firefox takes into account how frequently and how recently sites in the browser history were visited, combining them into a statistic called [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_Places_frecency_algorithm “frecency.”] The frecency of sites is calculated when the browser is idle. The way frecency is computed can be tweaked by a number of preferences.


The means by which a user arrived at a given URL (the “transition type”) is taken into account when calculating frecency. Typing in a URL, for example, is given a higher “bonus” than visiting a bookmark or clicking a link. These preferences—of the form '''places.frecency.(visit type)VisitBonus'''—determine the various bonus percentages given to the defined transition types.
The means by which a user arrived at a given URL (the “transition type”) is taken into account when calculating frecency. Typing in a URL, for example, is given a higher “bonus” than visiting a bookmark or clicking a link. These preferences—of the form '''places.frecency.(visit type)VisitBonus'''—determine the various bonus percentages given to the defined transition types.
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* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Mconnor/PlacesFrecency Users:Mconnor/PlacesFrecency (MozillaWiki)]
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Mconnor/PlacesFrecency Users:Mconnor/PlacesFrecency (MozillaWiki)]
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Sspitzer/GlobalFrecency Users:Sspitzer/GlobalFrecency (MozillaWiki)]
* [http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Sspitzer/GlobalFrecency Users:Sspitzer/GlobalFrecency (MozillaWiki)]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_Places_frecency_algorithm The Places frecency algorithm (Mozilla Developer Center)]


[[Category:Preferences]]
[[Category:Preferences]]

Revision as of 14:28, 4 May 2008

Background

Firefox 3 introduced a number of improvements to the Location Bar. Among them were changes to how sites are ordered in the dropdown menu. Firefox takes into account how frequently and how recently sites in the browser history were visited, combining them into a statistic called “frecency.” The frecency of sites is calculated when the browser is idle. The way frecency is computed can be tweaked by a number of preferences.

The means by which a user arrived at a given URL (the “transition type”) is taken into account when calculating frecency. Typing in a URL, for example, is given a higher “bonus” than visiting a bookmark or clicking a link. These preferences—of the form places.frecency.(visit type)VisitBonus—determine the various bonus percentages given to the defined transition types.

Possible values and their effects

The percent bonus given to the various visit transition types.

By default, the following preferences and values exist:

places.frecency.embedVisitBonus
0
places.frecency.linkVisitBonus
100
places.frecency.typedVisitBonus
2000
places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus
150
places.frecency.downloadVisitBonus
0
places.frecency.permRedirectVisitBonus
0
places.frecency.tempRedirectVisitBonus
0

First checked in

2008-01-25 by Dietrich Ayala

Has an effect in

  • Firefox (nightly builds since 2008-01-25)

Related bugs

Related preferences

External links