N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

When you start the browser on the N9, you're greeted with the "Top Sites" - which is a nice idea, but doesn't work well for me for various reasons. I'd like to be able to:

• change the title of sites stored there ("Login" is not a useful name; I don't know which site it belongs to)
• manually add a site (and make sure it doesn't disappear again too quickly)
• manually change the order of sites
• delete porn sites before I show the phone to my mother (this must be a bug in the browser: these sites always show up on top)
• manually change the URL of a site already stored (like add 'search.php?do=getnew' to the already stored 'http://talk.maemo.org')

/home/user/.grob/ seems to be where this stuff is stored, but I don't know how to access the files there (safely) and what kind of magic would be necessary to make some manual changes permanent. (I can imagine that deleting an entry will be simple... but renaming and then re-using it?)

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

Yep, it's the url_history.db. It's an sqlite database, specifically the TopSites table. Looks to me like it's ordered in grob by the accessCount field. I have copied the file to a PC, edited the database, copied it back over and saw the changes applied. All the bulleted items would be easy to change, just set the accessCount to a very high number so that your settings don't change

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

Seems like Harmattan needs a sqlite database editor so that this could be done in N9. It could probably be used also for manipulating calender entries too.

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

my N9 doesn't add new sites to "Top Sites" list after upgrade to PR 1.1
anyone has the same issue?

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

Yep, me too. The top sites remain static with various Nokia links. Anyway to get this to register new sites I visit?

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

I got the same problem top sites don't change anymore like on PR 1.0

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

Mine was like this until I kept going to talk.maemo and now that's top site! Maybe the counter for those sites was set high from default.

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

That certainly worked :) I thought something was broken and was about to edit some config files ... haha

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

use what software to edit the file for u??

Re: N9: How to selectively manipulate "Top Sites" in browser?
 

I didn't end up editing anything after following the tip by konceptz