120630 - Browser titles for plaintext (MIME text/plain) should be more useful

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

The URL:
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=65444&action=view
is added to history with the title 'attachment.cgi', but the tab it's in is
"(Untitled)", and the window has no title at all. It's possible to give much
more useful names all around:

page served as text/<not-html>         title for window, tab, and history
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://foo/                            foo
http://foo/bar                         bar
http://foo/bar/                        bar
http://foo/bar/baz                     baz

Perhaps we also want to use the shorter file name names for bookmarking too,
rather then the full URL?

Full URL also used in Go menu/Back/Forward, but I think we'd end up with worse
cases using just a file name there.

Comment 1

[xyzzy]

This sounds like bug 108189.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108189 ***

Comment 2

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

NOTADUP

Comment 3

[Dan Harkless]

Peter, you should change the Summary from "plain/text" to "text/plain", the
correct Content-Type.  My initial search for this bug yielded nothing since I
was looking for the latter term.

+1 vote, BTW.  Mozilla windows viewing text/plain content are just titled
"Mozilla", making it very difficult to find the right window when you have many
open.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: patchv1

Something like this, I guess. It seems to work just fine.

Comment 5

[Blake Kaplan (:mrbkap) (inactive)]

Comment on attachment 206698 [details] [diff] [review]
patchv1

I feel like this should really be done in content (either the content sink or in the document itself). Also, wouldn't you need to push an end title token as well as the start and text tokens?

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Summary edited as per comment #3.

Latest comment was in December 2005 but I think the bug is still valid:

I'm not 100% sure I can check this bug, because I have an extension which does things to the window title; however I believe (from the limited tests I could do) that the title for any plaintext page is empty, or maybe just "SeaMonkey {Build ID YYYYMMDDHH}.

It would be nice to have the filename in the title. (I'm going to vote for this bug.)

Blake and/or Peter, are you willing to go on fixing this bug? I suppose this would mean un-bitrotting the patch, having it reviewed, etc.

Also -- Is this bug Linux-only or does it also happen on other platforms? (I happen to be on Linux so I can't test this).

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Resetting A+QA on bug where no progress was made since 2005.

Comment 8

[Dan Harkless]

Ah, I hadn't noticed the incorrect OS setting.  Yes, this is a cross-platform bug -- I can confirm it happens on Windows too.  I can also check Mac OS next time I'm at my Dad's computer if you want, but I'm pretty sure it's not dependent at all on OS.  For the Firefox version, bug 321072, I can confirm it happens on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

All/All as per comment #8.