1013496 - Mobile topsites get sync'd to Desktop, placing mobile versions of sites on the desktop New Tab Page

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: Sync, defect, P3)

Description

[Jared Wein [:jaws] (please needinfo? me)]

Background:
I have Firefox Sync set up with my phone and desktop machines. I read a few news sites on my phone. These news sites have mobile versions, for example http://m.detnews.com. Because these sites are visited often, they are then synced to my desktop and get high frecency scores, placing the *mobile* versions of these sites on my New Tab Page. Clicking on them from the New Tab Page on the desktop takes me to the mobile site.

Since I'm on a desktop, viewing the desktop version of the site would be the better experience.

Should the frecency score be lowered if the visits are coming from mobile -> desktop? What other ways could we fix this issue?

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 2

[Jessilyn Davis]

Hello!
This bug has been closed due to inactivity and/or the potential for this bug to no longer be an issue with the new Discovery Stream-powered New Tab experience.
Please help us triage by reopening if this issue still persists and should be addressed.
Thanks!

Comment 3

[Lina Butler (ex-Mozilla)]

Something to keep in mind for our new Rust history component—though it might turn out to be a WONTFIX. But this isn't specific to New Tab; any mobile site with a high frecency will get synced to Desktop, and get prioritized in autocomplete results and top sites.