History | Shows Old and Unrelated Entries
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"Browser History" section of the address bar shows old and unrelated history when typing.
So usually on Firefox if i start to type a word that was in the title or address of a site it would suggest things involving the word from recent history as well as the sites i go to with that word most often.
Here's the word "Law" (I chose it because of the range of sites covers)
those results are the sites that I go to regularly/recently and a nice selection.
On the other hand, Vivaldi's
are things that i haven't looked at or researched in years. ive been using Vivaldi for about a month now I regularly go to "Law" sites shown in the firefox address bar and haven't touched any of the sites Vivaldi suggested at all. In fact it looks like Vivaldi isn't even suggesting sites that contain the word "Law".
Now ive been using Firefox for over decade so I understand it may have more data on my history but not only did I port it over to Vivaldi but i've been actively searching/going to sites and refreshing many times trying to get them "favored" by the algorithm but it doesn't seem to work.
My address bar settings:
I know this seems like a minor issue but in some cases its very annoying like when I'm trying to go a youtube video i saw recently or a webpage that I was reading.
The issue that first brought this to my attention is me researching Flood assistance programs today (I was in a bad flood last week). On Vivaldi I went to many sites containing the word flood and when i tried to type flood to go back to one random NSFW history from years ago popped up (that's why I had to choose a different word lol). I was eventually able to find the history button and type "flood" there and get the results i needed but the whole process just felt inconvenient. Am I doing something wrong? Do I not have an applicable setting turned on?
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@BrandonKalicharan It would appear that you should rearrange the order of those categories!?
You seem to want (both?) "History" to appear before (both?)"Search" results.
Highlight a category and move it up or down using the arrows at the foot of that "window".
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sorry for the confusion. i currently have it set like this to help with quick jumps to things.
I am not concerned about the order, in fact i like vivaldi's approach to let you organize it how you like. I am concern about what shows up for the "browser history" category.
what shows up in "browser history" is often unrelated to whats typed in the address bar. For example, try typing "topic" into your address bar. In Firefox its showing sites and titles that include the word topic. In my vivaldi it's showing random youtube videos.
Yet if i ctrl + H and type topic i see sites and titles with the word "topic", including this one. for some reason the "browser history" is pulling from a different database than the "history" and the results it pulls are of a lesser quality.
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I can confirm this problem. Additionally for me the "bogus" entries are in fact fake results. You cannot click on them and when you press tab to navigate the results, they are skipped over. Another point is it only happens when sync is turned on. If I logged out of sync, the problem goes away.
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@cryonox same here
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@BrandonKalicharan Have you found any fixes?
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@arashams I never found an actual fix. the closest thing i came up with is that sometimes if you type the same thing (so type it once, wait, delete it, and type it again) the problem goes away for that word/phrase. ive just relied on bookmarks more and more and the history side bar for when i need something more in depth.
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@cryonox yes! same here the items are glitched/fake clicking the X doesnt delete them and clicking on them doesn't go to the site.
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the latest update fixed it for me for some reason.
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hmm...ya it does seem to have been fixed. it has been happening for so long, I did not even pay attention.
