More bookmarks than expected reported in FHR?

[Gregory Szorc]

mak (CCd) can answer our Places questions.
rnewman also knows a bit about this from his Sync work. (I should know 
this too, but I never ventured too deep into the Places rabbit hole.)

On 1/6/15 10:24 AM, Georg Fritzsche wrote:
> I don’t know really about the places DB, but org.mozilla.places.places.bookmarks is reporting PLACES_BOOKMARKS_COUNT from PlacesDBUtils.telemetry():
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/2a193b7f395c/services/healthreport/providers.jsm#l1441
> https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/2a193b7f395c/toolkit/components/places/PlacesDBUtils.jsm#l882
>
> Georg
>
> On 06 Jan 2015, at 19:17, Cheng Wang <cww at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you countingautofolders (which look like folders but I think are set in the places DB like bookmarks)?
>>
>> Most visited, Recently bookmarked, recent tags would account for the 3 you're undercounting.
>>
>> I would bet that a common addonor historical default bookmark or partner repack or something like that accounts for the next bump to 15ish.
>>
>> Brendan Colloran wrote:
>>> Hey folks, Irina (cc'ed) has been looking at bookmark usage in FHR,
>>> and we're a bit surprised by what we're seeing-- 99% of profiles have
>>> 8 or more bookmarks, with the median number being about 19 bookmarks
>>> (see plots attached). This seems too high given the assumption that at
>>> installation time there should be only 5 bookmarks installed. We're
>>> wondering if there is a bug somewhere that could be causing
>>> over-reporting, if there might be something like other entries
>>> recorded in the places database at profile creation time that would be
>>> reported as bookmarks, or if anyone knows of some othre explanation
>>> for the surprisingly high bookmark use and in particular the
>>> surprisingly high apparent number of pre-installed bookmarks.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> -Brendan (and Irina)
>>>
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