User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007110807 Minefield/3.0b2pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007110807 Minefield/3.0b2pre I would like the option of starring-but-not-filing visited pages by default. This would allow me to keep, in effect, two histories. I'd like to keep a long, easily prunable history because I'm a hoarder. I like the security of knowing that I *could* find that page again, though I never will. Also, as an example, I'd like to keep a short history for link coloring. Knowing that I visited a link sometime in the last six months isn't useless, but close. I'd rather have *recently* followed links colored, for an indication of out-datedness, f'rinstance. Making starred pages a "persistent" history and expiring the regular history quickly seems like the best of both worlds. This is the equivalent of just manually starring most pages I visit, but I haven't been able to make that a strong enough habit to give up my long history. I'd rather clear out clutter later than risk expiring something I wanted to keep. I believe one of the original ideas behind Places was to move toward greater unification/integration of history and bookmarks, as "Places". This seems to me a step in that direction. Downsides: Loses a lot of the benefit of promoting starred pages in the URL bar autocomplete algorithm, but my impression is the URL bar is getting way smart about several different things, and may be able to hold it's own adequately. I'm ignorant of the performance implications, but two things--there is/will be a cap on number of bookmarks, which seems relevant, and, again, an early idea about Places was that it should offer an easy, lightweight way to star/tag, freely and with abandon, anything you think you *might* want to find again. If starring doesn't scale well enough, maybe it should. One last thought--how about middle-click unstarring a page, the way single-click stars it? The URL is the blog post that motivated me to finally get this bug submitted. Reproducible: Always

"The URL is the blog post that motivated me to finally get this bug submitted." Which I found via bug 402991, btw.

I think this paragraph from a <a href="http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/11/15/the-shape-of-things-to-come/">Faaborg blog post</a> supports my contention that starring is the new history, can contribute greatly to other UI areas (URL bar, etc), and in general should be heartily encouraged, even to the point of making it possible to star by default. Quoth he: The right side of the location bar now has a star icon that allows users to bookmark a Web page with a single click. We’ve found that a lot of users don’t bookmark pages anymore because it is actually easier to just search Google for any Web page that you want to visit again. So our objective when redesigning bookmarking in Firefox 3 was to create a system that was even faster for users than searching Google. Here is how it works: a single click on the star icon bookmarks the page and ensures that Firefox will never forget that you visited it. You can now search for the page again by entering any part of the title or URL In the location bar, which is more efficient than sending your search across the network, waiting for Google to generate a results page, and then locating and selecting the correct result on that page. Unquoth he. PS "They" recently gave me canconfirm for some reason, so I'm gonna use it at least once before they discover they erred....

This is something you should create an extension for. The common case is to have a subset of browsing history be permanent, and to let the less used items expire over time, and that's what we support by default.

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h". In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows: Tools | Message Filters Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New" Conditions: Body contains places-to-b-and-h Change the action to "Delete Message". Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top. Click OK. Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter. Gerv