IE 8 and Address Bar Favorites List

Factual Questions
1

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.)

2

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

3

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.

4

And install IE9 (if you can).

5

Did you even read my question?

6

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

7

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.

8

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…

9

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.