777799 - Mobile sites pollute history of all synced devices

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1332621

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Oliver Henshaw]

Browsing sites with a dedicated mobile page causes unwanted entries to appear in browser history and so in Awesome* autocomplete suggestions on all Synced devices - two prominent examples are www.theverge.com (mobile.theverge.com) and www.guardian.co.uk (m.guardian.co.uk)

There needs to be some way to de-duplicate mobile sites in browsing history - perhaps Canonical URLs are the answer? See e,g, http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html . See also this older bug about using the canonical URL for bookmarking, bug 502418.

This might come in useful for bug 507471 - sending the canonical version of a page to the other device is surely a better experience than sending the mobile version.


Note: the two sites I mentioned don't yet use canonical URLs consistently enough for this to work completely smoothly (maybe this is just an evangelism issue) - checking the source of some pages I see that: the theverge.com main site doesn't use Canonical URLS but the articles do; the guardian.co.uk uses Canonical URLs for its www. pages but not for its m. pages. But they still somehow avoid duplicate entries in google search.

Comment 1

[Oana Horvath [:ohorvath]]

Even if this is an older bug, I'll mark it as a duplicate of Bug 1332621 (seems to be the same issue) since that one is already prioritized and worked on, as part of Activity stream. Please reopen if I'm wrong.