101504 - Page with no title gives blank title on browser window

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Sanders]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010924
BuildID:    

If a page is a text document (not html), or an html document with no title tag,
then the browser window (tested in linux) has no title.

eg
http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/moz/no_title.txt
http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/moz/no_title.html

This is confusing, as you cannot tell from a window manager list what sort of
window the window is. Instead of a blank window title, mozilla should use
something like

"Mozilla", "(Untitled)", "(Untitled) - Mozilla" or something else.

**********
It might be an improvement on the unix (or all) platform to make window title
bars in general with the format "Pagename - Mozilla". It's quite nice to know
what app produced the window. This should, at least, be an option.
**********

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/moz/no_title.txt
2. See there is no title
3.

Actual Results:  No title on browser window


Expected Results:  Show some sort of title

Comment 1

[Dimitrios]

Good idea but it's not a bug. It's an enhancement, since neither NS4.x displays
anything in that case, at least on Windows. IE shows page address but this isn't
optimal, imho. Therefore, I would suggest to change platform to All and severity
to enhancement.

Comment 2

[Jeremy Sanders]

NS4 on linux shows "Netscape:" on a blank page.

Comment 3

[David Hallowell]

I don't see this on Win2k (build 2001092403) and I don't recall ever seeing it
on Linux either.

On a blank page you always get the following in the title bar:
Mozilla {build ID: xxxxxxxxxxxx}

This is also displayed on pages with a title in the form:
Title - Mozilla {build ID: xxxxxxxxxxxx}

If you're not seeing this then please delete your profile and start again.

In Linux you have to delete the ~/.mozilla directory to clear out profile data.

Remember all bugs should be tested against a new profile.

Comment 4

[Jeremy Sanders]

You're right. This is not a bug with a new profile.

However, it was almost impossible to set up a new profile, with a dialog box
without any text, and a completely screwed up browser window, with a horrific
mix between classic and modern.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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