Places.frecency.(visit type)VisitBonus

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is places.frecency.(visit type)VisitBonus.

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

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
75
places.frecency.defaultVisitBonus
0
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

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