723981 - [New tab page] too many similar pages are shown

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

If you'll forgive me for revealing how boring I am, here are the nine links on my new tab page (re-ordered to demonstrate the bug):

"502 Server Error" - http://google.com/reader (bug 723968)
"Google Reader" - http://google.com/reader/view
"reader.google.com" - http://reader.google.com
"Moved Permanently" - http://nytimes.com (bug 723957)
"The New York Times" - http://www.nytimes.com
"Inbox (5) - [my gmail address]" - https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&shva=1#inbox
"Inbox - [my gmail address]" - https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox
"Bug! (1) - [my gmail address]" - https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&shva=1#label/Bug!
"Slashdot" - http://slashdot.org

So for those following along at home, that's three different links for Google Reader, two for nytimes, and three for Gmail.  That is, of the nine links on my new tab page, there are only four different pages I might want to go to.  (I suppose you might say there are five, since I might want to go straight to my "Bug!" label in Gmail.  But I don't, so I say four.)

There are a number of ways to fix this.  But it seems to me that the frecency of a page should be based not on how many times I visit it, but how many times I type it into my URL bar (or select it from the awesomebar dropdown).  Otherwise, the new tab page is not really helping me go where I want to go.

Comment 1

[Tiger.711]

I think it would be better to add a filter that will control that was created only one dial for one domain.

Comment 2

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

That was my initial reaction too, but then I realized that it'd be perfectly reasonable if my top two pages were, say [1] and [2].  Different pages, same domain.

The new tab page is supposed to get you to where you want to go when you open a new tab.  That should be pretty well-predicted by what I've typed in the past...

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/index.html
[2] http://docs.python.org/index.html

Comment 3

[Tiger.711]

When I looked at it on this side, everything has seemed perfectly logical.

Comment 4

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

(In reply to Tiger.711 from comment #3)
> When I looked at it on this side, everything has seemed perfectly logical.

So the new tab page displays logical results for you?  That's good to hear, but there may still be a bug.

Comment 5

[Tiger.711]

> So the new tab page displays logical results for you? 
Nope. 
I was talking about your idea.

Comment 6

[Dirkjan Ochtman (:djc)]

Still, folding the fragments seems sensible enough.

Comment 7

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.