Firefox displays URLs in order from most frequently visited to least frequently visited, assuming you aren't constantly clearing your history. This display is ever self-correcting, ever narrowing as you continue to add characters. That is, in a nutshell, how it seems to work to me.
There is a little more to it. I've noticed that if a letter appears anywhere in a particularly frequently visited site's URL, or even in a phrase in the site's description, Firefox will put that result at the top. Your top result might be megadownload.net, for example, when you type "R" in the field--even though "R" is nowhere to be found in the URL. If this were to happen, it would be because 1.) the site's description reads "MegaDownload.net - megaupload.com and rapidshare.com search engine," and 2.) you have visited it more than any other site with the letter "R" featured as either part of the URL or the site description.
If you were to enter another letter following the "R" that does not follow an "R" in either the site's URL or its description, it would drop that site from the results. Following the "R" with an "O," for example, would drop the aforementioned site from the results, and another site with these characters (together, and in this order) somewhere in either the URL or site description (Rotten Tomatoes, for example) would take its place.
So, anyway, earlier today, I typed in "C" and followed it with "N." The reason? I wanted to go to CNN.com. Surprisingly, CNN.com was not the top hit. The top hit was CNDb.com. Apparently, I've been visiting the Celebrity Nudity Database with greater frequency than I have been seeking out news.
In my defense, whenever I log in to Yahoo! Mail, I see the day's top news stories. If you've been following my reposts of those news stories, however, you will see that they are reposts of the "Entertainment News," specifically. That is not Yahoo! Mail's default. No, that is a personal preference. If I want "real" news, I seek it out at CNN.com. Whether or not "real" news is to be found there, and not some other site, is, of course, debatable. What is not debatable, apparently, is my preference of information regarding celebrity nudity in film over my desire to seek out non-entertainment-centric news.
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All right, so I'm not quite sure how it works. I think it might at least work in a manner similar to the manner in which I describe it working above, though.
Does anyone know?
Is anyone willing to disabuse me of my new-found conviction that it must absolutely be the case that I visit CNDb.com more often than CNN.com?