More bookmarks than expected reported in FHR?

[Brendan Colloran]

Another question: the distribution has a very unusual shape, including
a mysterious jump at 14 bookmarks-- fully 11% of profiles have 14
bookmarks, about as many as have the default 8 bookmarks. Irina and I
have discussed a couple theories about why this could be the case, but
we haven't come up with anything terribly satisfying. We'd love to
hear other theories if anyone has ideas. Thanks!

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Marco Bonardo <mbonardo at mozilla.com> wrote:
> 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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