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Populate top sites with frequently opened sitesΒ #10342
Description
User Story
As a user, I want to see my frequently accessed sites on the homescreen in a useful way, so I can reference them to complete my routine tasks faster.
Dependencies
- Add an isPinned parameter to Top SitesΒ android-components#7261
- Add an API to fetch history pages for top sitesΒ mozilla/application-services#2163
- Add getTopFrecentSiteInfos history APIΒ android-components#7094
Acceptance Criteria
- I can disable this feature
- If enabled, I see my frequently accessed sites on my homescreen
- There is a cap on # of automatically generated top sites to avoid cluttering the homescreen
- Users can turn off this feature in settings (just the auto-populated top sites, not the user added ones) (This is a requirement for shipping this feature)
- I can customize how my top sites show up on the homescreen (e.g. choose how many sites or rows to see)
Nice to have:
- Ability to rename top sites Ability to rename top sitesΒ #9548
- Rearrange Top Sites items Rearrange Top Sites itemsΒ #8305
βIssue is synchronized with this Jira Task
Reacted by yump, Marek LukΓ‘Ε‘, Rob Fitz, madb1lly, Grisha Kruglov, axeltrinidade, Osas, Daniel Glatter and otede
Reacted by Osas and binocry
Activity
[-]Populate top sites with frequentlyopened sites [/-][+]Populate top sites with frequently opened sites [/+]cadeyrn commentedon May 1, 2020
Can you please make this an optional feature? I really don't want my homescreen cluttered with auto-populated sites. It's always the first thing I disable in new installations of Firefox on desktop systems and Firefox for Android should allow to disable this, too. Thanks!
vesta0 commentedon May 1, 2020
@cadeyrn thanks for the feedback! I added that to the acceptance criteria.
Kreuger commentedon May 7, 2020
I would also like to see some news articles featured like Kiwi Browser has.
cadeyrn commentedon May 7, 2020
News articles seems more something for #6416. This issue is about the top site thumbnails - there is no space for a headline or text.
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gabrielluong commentedon Aug 26, 2020
Feature is currently hidden behind the Secret Menu to display visited sites.
Matth7878 commentedon Aug 27, 2020
Having tested it I am wondering if it should not be apart from top sites : they have been limited to 8 (x2) and that's not a lot.
And for people not wanting it it may be easier to turn it off?
Besides it didn't matter for top sites but for frequent sites having a thumbnails instead of an icon would really be better. You may not be as familiar with them than you are with top sites.
LaurentiuApahideanSV commentedon Aug 27, 2020
Verified as fixed on Firefox Preview Nightly 200827 (Build #2015760379).
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madb1lly commentedon Aug 27, 2020
Hi @Matth7878,
I agree, I don't know what half of those frequently visited sites are from the icon that's used! π
Cheers π
LaurentiuApahideanSV commentedon Sep 2, 2020
I tested the issue on Firefox Preview Beta 81.1.0-beta.1. The patch notes for this build contain this fix but the top sites are not populated with the most visited websites and the Secret settings menu is blank.
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LaurentiuApahideanSV commentedon Sep 2, 2020
The option is not present in the Customize Settings menu, I have reopened issue #14119 regarding this.
LaurentiuApahideanSV commentedon Sep 3, 2020
Verified as fixed on Firefox Preview Beta 81.1.0-beta.2 (Build #2015761657).
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