While working on an issue today I stumbled upon a weird inconsistency in regards of favorites:

If one, for any reasons, wants to adjusts the number for displayed favorites on the myresearch page or add a control widget for the amount of entries per page ones needs to add a new section to the main config named [Social] and the parameters are then named lists_default_limitand lists_limit_options this is unlike the "real" search options that are named default_limit and limit_options

I only found this after delving deeply into the code, namely Search/Favorites/Options.php to find the offending text:

if (isset($config->Social->lists_default_limit)) {
    $this->defaultLimit = $config->Social->lists_default_limit;
}
if (isset($config->Social->lists_limit_options)) {
    $this->limitOptions = $this->explodeListSetting($config->Social->lists_limit_options);
}

According to codeblame this is almost a decade old code (last edited 2016-04-25 22:09 GMT+1), I did not wanted to open a pull request from the get go as this is a breaking change for all instances that modify this parameter. Also I put in zero research to see where else this parameter is used.

If its nowhere I would propose moving this parameter to the searches.ini under either [Favorites] or if broader used [MyResearch] and the properly named as the normal parameters that govern this feature for the search.