1468655 - Mozilla tabs can't be renamed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1454760

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[hifromnz]

Attachment: FF cant rename tabs-Enter A Bug @2018.06.14, 12_01_06.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180605171542

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to rename tab of a PDF preview page "88f5c073-06ec-4b44-8e6b-d97dfc578dd6.pdf" to a meaningful name using Tab ReTitle

Attempted to rename tab of an add-ons page "Web Paint – Add-ons for Firefox" by adding a prefix (to remind me when looking through dozens of addons) using Tab ReTitle


Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

Tabs should be able to be renamed like any other tab - PARTICULARLY the preview tabs which are not even FF content!

Can whatever has been put on to prevent it please be removed.  Thanks!

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Is there a specific reason ehy you reported this to the Mozilla community instead of the authors of "Tab ReTitle" (whatever that is)?

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to hifromnz from comment #0)
> Created attachment 8985277 [details]

Bug 1223642, comment 6 and maybe bug 1467417 relevant to an add-on trying to affect another.

> Attempted to rename tab of a PDF preview page

Add-ons aren't allowed to interact with previewed PDFs. Bug 1454760.

> Attempted to rename tab of an add-ons page "Web Paint – Add-ons for Firefox"

Is that a page on addons.mozilla.org? Add-ons aren't allowed to interact with those pages. You can enter about:config into the address bar and modify the extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains preference to remove addons.mozilla.org, from the preference value.

Tab ReTitle support thread:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/support-tab-re-title-general-support/28395/4

Comment 3

[lazyuki]

Basically what Gingerbread Man said. 
PDF pages and mozilla.org websites are not re-title-able so to speak, due to Firefox not allowing add-ons to interact with those pages. 

There's nothing I can do about that, except to suggest you to use Chrome instead if you want to use the add-on with PDFs. Also you can still manually change the title using the Inspect Element feature and changing <title></title> to whatever you want it to be. Maybe in the future they'll add the about:config option to enable PDF add-ons.

Comment 5

[hifromnz]

This (In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #1)
> Is there a specific reason ehy you reported this to the Mozilla community
> instead of the authors of "Tab ReTitle" (whatever that is)?

Duh because it happens with all tab renaming addons, and because I, like most users, am well aware that it is caused by Mozilla setting preventing addons interacting with its tabs, and that add-ons developers have major problems with dumb settings like this.  Is there a specific reason why you asked why I did not waste my time and add-on designer's time?

Comment 6

[hifromnz]

> Firefox not allowing add-ons to interact with those pages. 
> 
> There's nothing I can do about that, except to suggest you to use Chrome

That is REALLY funny!

Comment 7

[hifromnz]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #2)

> Is that a page on addons.mozilla.org? Add-ons aren't allowed to interact
> with those pages. You can enter about:config into the address bar and modify
> the extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains preference to remove
> addons.mozilla.org, from the preference value.

Thank you for that Gingerbread man, unfortunately it had no effect and could not rename either on pdf preview or mozilla.org addon page.  It looks like it SHOULD have removed the restrictions but doesnt. I wonder what restrictions it DOES remove (if it works at all)?

Comment 8

[hifromnz]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #2)
> (In reply to hifromnz from comment #0)
> > Created attachment 8985277 [details]
> 
> Bug 1223642, comment 6 and maybe bug 1467417 relevant to an add-on trying to
> affect another.

It's not one addon trying to affect another, as it works fine on all other web pages.

Comment 9

[hifromnz]

(In reply to Gingerbread Man from comment #2)
> (In reply to hifromnz from comment #0)
> > Created attachment 8985277 [details]
> > Attempted to rename tab of a PDF preview page
> 
> Add-ons aren't allowed to interact with previewed PDFs. Bug 1454760.

Yes I got that.  It's a BUG which needs to be removed, which is what I asked in my 1st post.  :-)

Comment 10

[hifromnz]

(In reply to lazyuki from comment #3)

> Maybe in the future they'll add the about:config option to enable PDF add-ons.

Agree - I used to use foxit and highlight+annotate in the browser then save.  Now broken, as with everything else.

I'm actually interested in a response from "THEY" - thanks fellow sufferers for your input, maybe a vote up might get a response other than "resolved" (AKA put in another bin).

Comment 11

[hifromnz]

SEE COMMENT#5

Comment 12

[hifromnz]

Hello?  Any progress fixing this bug?

Comment 13

[David Durst [:ddurst]]

The original description centered (mostly) around renaming preview pages (which I assume means PDFs, based on the description). That's why this was resolved duplicate of 1454760.

If there is a larger issue that is not specifically about PDFs, please file another bug with explicit steps to reproduce and expected results.

Comment 16

[Piecevcake]

(In reply to David Durst [:ddurst] from comment #13)

The original description centered (mostly) around renaming preview pages
(which I assume means PDFs, based on the description). That's why this was
resolved duplicate of 1454760.
If there is a larger issue that is not specifically about PDFs, please file
another bug with explicit steps to reproduce and expected results.

1. What part of "Attempted to rename tab of a PDF preview page" led to your rude putdown "around renaming preview pages
   (which I assume means PDFs,"?

2. What part of "Attempted to rename tab of an add-ons page" in my original report authorised you to "assume" it was about only one of the two examples I gave, and completely ignore the other?

3. My original report clearly set out that it was a "larger issue that is not specifically about PDFs". Please reopen it instead of rudely telling me to do again what I have already done here.

If you can't be bothered reading reports that users have taken the trouble to notify to Mozilla, I politely suggest that you leave them for someone else who will read them.

Comment 17

[Piecevcake]

Guys you might like to upvote this bug-requesting facility to flag obnoxious and counterproductive actions taken on our reports to Mozilla! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649104