Comments on: You Voted us Kings

By: Iren

Iren — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:56 +0000

Hi Adam and Eddie,
you wrote a very cool add-on, congrats! Add me to the list of fans
On the latest screenshot on Mozilla site I saw the notepad section but in my NTK 2.0.6b there’s no such thing How can I get it? Is there an option somewhere I should check? Having a notepad is an awesome feature, I’d kill for it Please tell me how to get it, I’m begging here! )

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:44:16 +0000

I neglected to mention the most important part. All that said, setting the “Most used websites” section to show only bookmarks pretty much completely solves my issue. It’s not QUITE as automated, but bookmarking those specific sub-pages I want a single time is hardly any effort.

Thanks.

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:08:39 +0000

Thanks for the response!

I guess I’m just used to the way Chrome did it. I found the pages they gave me really were the specific drilled-down pages I visited regularly. I.e. when I visit the web forums I follow, I always want to enter through the User Control Panel and check on my bookmarked threads. I don’t want to start at the index of the forums which is what happens now.

Writing this out it sounds like a ridiculous complaint, but the problem with “details” icon is having to click twice when I’m used to it working with just a single click.

While your approach is at least logical, one flaw/bug/issue I’ve noticed is that it ranks the “most visited websites” by the number of visits to the root page. So in my case, Google News is ranked at the top, but the forums I frequent are near the bottom of the list, in danger of being knocked-off, because I never go to the index. This is despite that the control panel sub-page has 10 as many hits as any other page I visit regularly.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:20:34 +0000

Hi Mark,
Thank for your comment.
We actually had this when we just started but after a while we realized that ordering the visited pages by frequency is not such a good experience. Imagine you’re visiting CNN.com, Facebook, and YouTube regularly – each time viewing a different article, friend post, or movie. What you’ll get after a while is a flat list of visited pages (each represented with its unique URL – having a frequency of 1 or 2 visits) with nothing to cluster them into groups. Very soon, you’ll start looking for these sites’ homepages to enable you to perform a new ’search’.
What we do have for addressing this issue is a ‘details’ icon on each website entry in the “most uses websites” section. When clicking it – you get a drill down of specific addresses under the domain that we display.
Please let me know if you find this a satisfactory solution. Of course, I’ll be more than happy to listen to any suggestions that you might have on a different display method.

Thanks again

-Eddie

By: Mark A.

Mark A. — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:56:18 +0000

This extension is ALMOST perfect to me. The one thing that really bothers me is that in the list of “Most Used Websites,” it doesn’t show the most used PAGE, but the root of the most shown site. So even if I go to a specific page 50 times, and the root once, it shows the root by default. I’d love to have an option to weigh sub-pages over the site homepages.