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Firefox dropdown history needs reorder.

Asked by mikebravo

Here is the deal: in windows xp the Internet Explorer drop down history keeps the sites I visit frequently e.g. CNN and MSNBC at the top of the history list. As I visit more sites, they move down the list but always move to the top when I reselect them from the list. In Firefox, my most commonly visited sites have migrated to the bottom of the list and I must scroll down to find them, and I suspect CNN is about to fall off the bottom. What do I have to do to keep my most frequently visited sites at the top of my list? Using Firefox in Ubuntu 7.10.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

Hmm..

I think this is the way that mozilla firefox works...

A workaround for this maybe..

Type about:config in the Firefox location bar.
Type browser.history.grouping in the filter.
Now change the values as you wish (By double clicking it Default is days you can try hours or minutes even!.)

Note : I havent personally tested this out.. but give it a try!

Hope it helps

Bhavani Shankar.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

I am not sure that I understand the difference described correctly.

IIRC the history sidebar (CTRL+H, or History->Show in Sidebar) in Firefox works the same as the one in Explorer. Also, you can change the sorting by clicking the view button and selecting another filter (i.e. "By most visited")

Maybe this solves already the question. If not, please describe your point detailed enough that we can follow it, (i.e. step-by-step instructions what to do to reproduce the different behaviour.

Hope this helps.

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mikebravo (oldmikebravo) said : 		#3

More discussion:
Bahavani, Indeed, that just might be what I am stuck with. I do not see how changing the 'time in history' value, if that is what it is, will do anything that I care about.

Ralph, Forget about the side bar. Been there, tried that, never use it anyway. Also have no interest in a browser history tool bar. A tool bar is a waste of desktop space when you already have a dropdown that can serve the same purpose, at least for my browsing habits, it it worked like the drop down history in Windows Internet Explorer. I want to put the 'most recently visited' at the top of the address bar dropdown list, not at the top of the sidebar.

I,m beginning to think it can't be done, but more ideas would be welcome.
Mike Burks

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Best Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#4

If you feel so strongly about this, maybe you want to submit a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Any change (or bugfix) like this should be done directly at the upstream project rather than on ubuntu level.

Hope this helps.

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mikebravo (oldmikebravo) said : 		#5

What it is is what it is. Perhaps it is a usability issue that can sometime be address, but for now I suspect there are bigger fish to fry. If it is correct to conclude that this behavior is not caused by something I am doing wrong, then for my own purposes I can mark this problem solved.