Use the "Most Visited" dynamic boomark folder in newer versions of Firefox

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Newer versions of Firefox maintain a default dynamic fold called "Most Visited" 
I find this list is more useful than how the plugin figures out the most 
visited.

Another option would be to make the thumbs dependent on a user selected 
bookmark folder as Firefox now supports user created folders based on search 
this could make the plugin more powerful.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dgree...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 4:28

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Awesome bar is probably using the same list. I'll have to verify that but I 
planned to replace my implementation with that one.

Can you explain the second part a bit? How can I do it myself? (a link to 
Firefox's help would do as well)

Original comment by mlalevic@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 4:35

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1. In Firefox 4, go to "Show All Bookmarks" aka "Library"
2. Perform a search using the "Search Bookmarks" field in the top right.
3. Click the save button, this will create a new bookmark folder with the 
search icon, just like the default "Most Visited", "Recently Bookmarked" and 
"Recent Tags" folders.

Original comment by dgree...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 4:49

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Mozilla link, not sure if there is an updated one but it works the same as when 
this was an add-on for Firefox 3.x

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart%20Bookmarks%20folders

Original comment by dgree...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 5:54

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This plugin lets you edit advanced query options to base folders on things like 
date of visit and visit count that are still not exposed in the Firefox UI.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchplaces/

Original comment by dgree...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 6:10

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Thanks for the links and explanation, I actually didn't know it was that simple 
to make those live folders - while I was testing I was making them manually ... 
doh!
You can add smart folder as a bookmark bar at the moment, but the idea to have 
folders controlling thumbnails is interesting, I'll be looking at it in the 
future.

Original comment by mlalevic@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 9:35

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I kind of find the "bookmark bars" redundant to actually using a real boomark 
toolbar in Firefox, but that is just my preference. The other Auto Dial and 
Speed dial Add-ons for Firefox now seem to all have tabs of thumbnails, it 
would be nice to bind them to Search folders.

One note of warning is that users can delete the 3 default search folders, so 
if you decide to use them in the future make sure to account for them not being 
there / prompt to recreate them (setting browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion 
to 0 then restart ff)

Original comment by dgree...@gmail.com on 28 Mar 2011 at 9:44