734073 - Add a preference to set expiration interval for async livemarks

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Places, defect, P5)

Description

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120307 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120307031051

Steps to reproduce:

Since bug 731274 landed, or after its landing, livemarks reload at a hard coded interval of 1 hour.



Expected results:

Theer should be a preference (as there was previously when livemarks were synchronous) to change the refresh interval of livemarks.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

bug 731274 didn't change this, really.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Please, could you bring some specific use-cases for the need to check (and update) a livemark more often than 1 hour?

Comment 3

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

Sorry, my bad. You got it right.

Comment 4

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #2)
> Please, could you bring some specific use-cases for the need to check (and
> update) a livemark more often than 1 hour?

Any tech blog like (engasget, gsmArena, pcworld, winrumors, mynokiablog, techradar) and even Mozilla wiki recent changes any mercurial changelog of firefox repo. etc.

The list can go on and on depending on the user type and interest,

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

what would be an acceptable time, if one exists?

Comment 6

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

Is it too difficult to let user change this interval via a preference ?
If yes, the I think 15 minutes should be a good compromise.
Earlier before async livemarks landed, I had it to be 2 minutes though.

Comment 8

[jcpereira]

(In reply to Girish Sharma from comment #6)
> Is it too difficult to let user change this interval via a preference ?
> If yes, the I think 15 minutes should be a good compromise.
> Earlier before async livemarks landed, I had it to be 2 minutes though.

I had 10 minutes, because i have feeds that refreshes very often, like financial feeds, world news..

Comment 9

[Girish Sharma [:Optimizer]]

Is any progress going on regarding this bug ? Many of my friends who are lately shifting back to Nightly are asking me that there was a good way of reading feeds, like Google Reader inbuilt in Firefox, but its not working properly now.
It would be really nice if the expiration time was brought down to lets say 10-15 minutes, and more awesome if there were a pref to change that too.

Comment 10

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Firefox is not a feed reader, it has never wanted to be and it will never be.  It supports feeds cause they are a common format on the Web.
This is low priority, I'll make an add-on to provide automatic reloading in background shortly and let you know about it.

Comment 11

[jcpereira]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #10)
> Firefox is not a feed reader, it has never wanted to be and it will never
> be.  It supports feeds cause they are a common format on the Web.
> This is low priority, I'll make an add-on to provide automatic reloading in
> background shortly and let you know about it.

Is this add-on forgotten?

at least is there a chance that it could be a preference to update all of the livemarks at once? Right now the only way is to exit Firefox and to start it again or update the livemarks one by one :(

Comment 12

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to João Carlos from comment #11)
> Is this add-on forgotten?

Nope, just didn't have the time.  Will try harder.

> at least is there a chance that it could be a preference to update all of
> the livemarks at once? Right now the only way is to exit Firefox and to
> start it again or update the livemarks one by one :(

There has never been the option to update all of them at once, but it's easy to do in the add-on itself.

Comment 13

[jcpereira]

I guess this was forgotten :(

Comment 14

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