More bookmarks than expected reported in FHR?

[Marco Bonardo]

As already said, the bookmarks count includes anything that looks like a
URI bookmark, included place: queries, but not folders or separators.
while the UI doesn't expose a direct way to create a place: query, it's
possible to create them through drag & drop (for example dragging a tag
from the Library to the toolbar, or dragging a "root" shortcut). It's also
possible to create such queries through add-ons or by direct editing of a
bookmark URI.
In the past we had the possibility to save a query to a bookmark, but that
UI has been removed (it could be re-evaluated in future), some saved
queries could thus exist in old profiles.
That said, it's currently mostly a feature for built-in bookmarks and
advanced users, most users won't go much further than the star button.

-m


2015-01-06 21:26 GMT+01:00 Cheng Wang <cww at mozilla.com>:

> You /can/ make queries(ctrl-shift-B, right click in the main area, add
> bookmark):
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/
> Places/Places_query_URIs
>
> There was a bit of a lifehack-style push back in Firefox 2(maybe 3) when
> it was a "pro tip" kind of deal and you could download premade queryfolders
> but I'd bet no more than 10000 users have anything outside the default 3.
>
> (Although as an odd fact, I had a weird bug where all my bookmarks
> duplicated over back in the day and over so I actually have 20
> queryfolders... not that I use thembut it makes my profile a good test
> profile.)
>
> Cheng.
>
> Brendan Colloran wrote:
>
>> Ah, ok, that's helpful. In that case, would it be correct to presume
>> that in general there should not be any additional queries beyond
>> these three -- i.e., there is no standard user action that results in
>> the creation of more such queries?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Richard Newman <rnewman at mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Looking more deeply:
>>>
>>> michael at 201791
>>>     917        query:     `SELECT count(*) FROM moz_bookmarks b
>>> michael at 201791
>>>     918                    JOIN moz_bookmarks t ON t.id = b.parent
>>> michael at 201791
>>>     919                    AND t.parent <> :tags_folder
>>> michael at 201791
>>>     920                    WHERE b.type = :type_bookmark` },
>>>
>>> This should not be reporting anything that's not a bookmark.
>>>
>>>
>>> That means the extras are really queries, and they are:
>>>
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