Places.frecency.updateIdleTime

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is places.frecency.updateIdleTime.

This article describes the preference places.frecency.updateIdleTime. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 Caveats
4 First checked in
5 Has an effect in
6 Related bugs
7 Related preferences
8 External links

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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.

This preference determines how long the browser must be idle before starting frecency calculations in the background.

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