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* Better use of the "typed" flag (set for URLs that have ever been entered in the address bar). The current implementation gives typed URLs a constant boost over non-typed URLs. It would be nice to weight the various parameters by time, so a recent typed URL would still take precidence over something visited several times but many weeks ago. | * Better use of the "typed" flag (set for URLs that have ever been entered in the address bar). The current implementation gives typed URLs a constant boost over non-typed URLs. It would be nice to weight the various parameters by time, so a recent typed URL would still take precidence over something visited several times but many weeks ago. | ||
* When considering the aforementioned "aging" of priority, we might want to take into account browsing behavior. It sucks to come back from a two-week vacation and have all your history and autocomplete expired. At startup, we can detect periods of little or no activity and adjust the aging parameters accordingly. | |||
* Give some boost to bookmarked URLs. | * Give some boost to bookmarked URLs. | ||
== Performance with the new database == | == Performance with the new database == | ||