How to change the sorting?

[ClaudiaK21]

Hi,

I am new, just checked this interesting addon. How can I change the sorting of the results more grouped?

I don't understand the "scoring" thing, in my search the results are totally mixed bookmarks, tabs....

I would like to have

• first on top all open tab results are listed
• then bookmark results
• then history

Thanks in advance

[Fannon]

Hello Claudia,

while this is not exactly how I had the sorting in mind, you may be able to achieve this by setting some score related options.
(I'm aware that finding out how to understand and set the options is not really easy:)

Could you try out pasting this into your options?
As you could see this would add so much score points to tabs that they are bound to be always above bookmarks, etc.

scoreTabBaseScore: 10000
scoreBookmarkBaseScore: 1000
scoreHistoryBaseScore: 100
scoreSearchEngineBaseScore: 0

[ClaudiaK21]

Great, yeah this worked perfectly.
I must say for normal users it is not easy to use, entering code manually. Maybe you can put more options directly in as a standard with notes behind each like "# lower or higer to change the order", all options possible so the user is able to simply change them or leave them blank.

Another idea would be, an easier overview, like icons for tab, bookmark etc in front of the link not behind. An icon for history is missing.

And I noticed that there is no correct "close" picture for tab

Thanks in advance :)

[Fannon]

Yes, I understand that this is complicated for regular users. But many similar extensions do not allow customization at all. Honestly, I just wanted to avoid the work with coming up with a good options UI, which would be quite some work with so many options.

What do you mean by icons? Right now there is the colored bar on the left which is different for each result type.
But in general, I thought about adding icons (favicons ideally) to the results.

Thanks for the hint with missing close icon! I'll look into that one.

[ClaudiaK21]

What do you mean by icons? Right now there is the colored bar

Ah, sorry I did not recognize the colored bar jet lol, it is very narrow. Maybe give history a different color too?

I just wanted to avoid the work with coming up with a good options UI

Yeah, I understand this, but if it is possible to enter all options available as default, prefilled, the user can easily change them and sees imediately what can be set. Blank for "not used" or something like that.

[Fannon]

History already has a different color :)
History is green, tab is pink, bookmarks are teal and search is orange.

How does it look like for you if its "very narrow"? For me, its already quite wide and visible (6 pixels + additional upscaling if you have that on OS level). Of course there are different tastes, but it could also be displayed differently across browsers by accident (would be a bug then).

[ClaudiaK21]

ok thanks, then there weren't history tabs in my search results.

It looks this with firefox 103 on windows 11. I am sure, I will get used to it. You could add the color info to the "tips" tab, it's missing there :)

[Fannon]

Yeah, I understand this, but if it is possible to enter all options available as default, prefilled, the user can easily change them and sees imediately what can be set. Blank for "not used" or something like that.

This has unfortunately some not so good implications: If everything is prefilled with the default, the extension cannot really change defaults anymore because from there a user would keep their options with all the defaults from the time they installed the extension. When options change or are added this would lead to "migration issues". So it's cleaner to only define those options you really want to overwrite.

All of the options are already described with defaults in the "Info & Help" link as a link to the code where they are documented. This is not easy to use, I'm aware but I don't have the time to invest on this. I understand that it -would- be a good future improvement.

[ClaudiaK21]

ok, I understand, thanks for the info.