my address bar drop down of the sites I visited most often isn't updating to my most frequently visited sites anymore..
I saw that someone asked this question (on 2/6/14), saying the "most visited sites" aren't being updated in their drop down menu and did they have to enable the updating function somewhere, but there was no response to that question...
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Do you mean:
- The "Most Visited" smart bookmark folder (icon with a magnifying glass on a blue folder) in your bookmarks? This should be in order of the total visits to that address stored in your history from highest to lowest.
- The list that opens when you click the downward-pointing triangle in the address bar? This one takes into account how recently you visited the site and moves sites you used to visit a lot but haven't visited recently down the list.
You can check for problems with the places.sqlite database file in the Firefox profile folder.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_history_and_toolbar_buttons_not_working_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Bookmarks+not+saved#w_fix-the-bookmarks-file
- Places Maintenance: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/places-maintenance/
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
- Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
- Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
Thanks for responding jscher. I mean the down arrow list you describe in the second paragraph of your response. It just doesn't seem to be updating with my latest sites as it used to. jayworld
You can modify the selection of sites on the drop-down by changing some of the parameters used to calculate their "frecency" (combination of frequency plus recency).
However, I'm not sure this is retroactive, one or both of use might need to experiment. If you want to test, here is what I suggest.
By default, visits to sites during the past 4 days are ranked higher than visits during the two weeks prior to that, which are ranked higher than visits during the month prior to that. These visits are grouped in what are called buckets, with the visits during the past 4 days in the first bucket.
However, the difference between the buckets is not that huge. A visit last week is worth 70% of a visit today when ranking sites on the list. If you visited very frequently before, that could easily add up to more total points than a visit or two today.
You can exaggerate the difference between buckets by changing the weight given to visits in the first bucket (last 4 days). Here's how:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste frec and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the places.frecency.firstBucketWeight preference and change its value from the default of 100 to something like 200.
I think you might need to exit and restart Firefox to get the stored values recalculated. Or maybe it will only apply going forward?
Here is the documentation on all those frecency preferences:
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/Frecency_algorithm
If you try it, let us know what you find and if you can set that and other preferences to give you the results you want.