721088 - Support for automated visits in history

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Places, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

In the world of Greasemonkey and addons, not all visits are human-driven, and not all visits are meaningful to the Awesomebar or Sync.

Example: Facebook Wall Manager (http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/86674), which can spend a whole bunch of time clicking links on Facebook without you ever reading a page.

Perhaps it would be worthwhile to add a new visit type for automated visits that should not be considered part of the user's synced browser history, or otherwise provide some way to indicate that tens of thousands of automated requests shouldn't shape your browser's view of you and sync to your other devices.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I don't think the problem is having a not registered visit type (we may just use embed), but how to recognize those visits.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

It's an interesting idea, a little bit underspecified. Now that WebExt are in a separate process it may be easier to recognize their visits.