Closed Bug 1285350 Opened 8 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Exclude known URL shorteners from Awesomebar (and Android awesomescreen) results.

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mhoye, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [fxsearch]) 

This is a feature request: I only want endpoints in my awesomebar. Having intermediary URLs cluttering it up is less than ideal.

So: The Awesomebar would be a bit awesomer if shortened or intermediate URLs were excluded from its search results. 

t.co, bit.ly, j.mp, there are a bunch of them. A list of them is here:

https://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php
bug 737836 would already help a lot...
Depends on: 737836
Priority: -- → P3
Whiteboard: [fxsearch]
As new frecency data is being built, from now on you should see shortener urls lower in the urlbar compared to their targets. This is not a complete blacklisting of them, but should help a lot.

I honestly don't know if we want to go the complete exclusion path, it sounds complicate to maintain a list of shorteners and it could look bad towards them if Firefox excludes them completely from the UI just because they redirect. I think giving them a low weight works better in general.
For this reason I'm wontfixing this for the pure "exclusion" request. The bug as I see it should be fixed by frecency improvements though.

If you have further thoughts/ideas to share about this, feel free to report them for further evaluation.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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