IE 8 and Address Bar Favorites List

In IE 8, there is a pull-down arrow on the address bar that will show you History and Favorites. My question is how does IE 8 determine which Favorites to show? I have five showing, and two of them are sites I haven’t accessed in a year, yet here they are on this Favorites list.

Are the Favorites listed on the address bar pull-down list sites from your Favorites list that have been recently accessed? If not, what criteria does IE 8 use to determine which sites are on this list?

(Note, I am not talking about my Favorites in general, just those that show up via the address bar.)

Bump? Anybody know why sites from my Favorites that I haven’t visited in a year suddenly show up in the Address Bar Favorites?

On the right side of the IE menu bar is an icon “wrench” that opens a drop down menu. From the menu choose the Bookmark manger. In bookmark manager there is a folde for Bookmarks bar.Add the favorites you wish to this folder and they will display.

And install IE9 (if you can).

Did you even read my question?

tbook, I apologize. That was uncalled for. Sorry.

Carol, I never noticed that before (I use Chrome primarily) but I see what you mean. Oddly, if I click on the “Favorites” title there it expands to more sites, but the order of the sites is somewhat random.

According to this forum thread and thisvague Microsoft post, it might indeed be a most-frequently-used (MRU) list of favorites, but I didn’t test it myself…

And if it’s really bothering you, considering switching to Firefox, which instead uses a “frecency” (frequency + recency) rating for each URL. You can even customize the weights to your heart’s content with a bunch of hidden config options.