949105 - Allow history visits to be marked as hidden

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Data Providers, defect)

Comment 1

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

What is the motivation for this? It seems that delete would serve the same purpose to the user.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

From Bug 949104:

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The solution Places uses is to mark some pages in history as hidden: 

1111   /**
1112    * Some pages in history are marked "hidden" and thus don't appear by default
1113    * in queries.  These include automatic framed visits and redirects.  Setting
1114    * this attribute will return all pages, even hidden ones.  Does nothing for
1115    * bookmark queries. Defaults to false.
1116    */
1117   attribute boolean includeHidden;

We definitely need that capability to handle JS redirection (though we'd need to be judicious about its application).
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Keeping a visit but marking it as hidden allows us to mark links as a:visited, even if the destination URL redirects -- rather than throwing away the visit, we record it but hide it.

There might be more to this, too. It would be worth spending a little time to understand what desktop does.

Comment 3

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