417110 - Autocomplete should prefer bookmarked (starred) URLs to URLs that were merely visited

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[:glob ✱]

Attachment: screenshot showing poor sorting of autocomplete with bookmarked item

autocomplete should give preference to urls that have been bookmarked over visited urls (or at least a higher weighting that currently).

in the attached screenshot i would expect my bookmarked url to be at the top of the list, for two reasons:
  - it has been bookmarked
  - the title matches my search exactly

Comment 1

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Try playing around with this pref:

places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus

Perhaps the default should be bigger?

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

> Try playing around with this pref:
> places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus

didn't make any difference.

i've set it to 99999 (default is 140), restarted minefield, and the sorting remains unchanged.

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

It takes some time to recalculate the frecency. Try visiting the page to force a recalculation.

Comment 4

[:glob ✱]

thanks edward, visiting the page did the trick.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

WFM, though I think we tweaked this before release to weight higher...

Comment 6

[Federico]

Just a link: I think this was resolved in bug 394066, where some other possibilities were discarded (see bug 394066#c11).

Comment 7

[Federico]

(In reply to comment #5)
> WFM, though I think we tweaked this before release to weight higher...

Actually, the default is currently 75...

Comment 8

[Federico]

Sorry, the default value is 140, but for places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus , which is what you're interested in if you want to give a bonus to all bookmarks.
Compare places.frecency.linkVisitBonus with value 100 (even a frequently visited bookmark can be flooded by less visited places).