215929 - window title shows [object HTMLImageElement] on page with <img name="title">

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[John Mertic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030811 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

When you first bring up the page in a tab, the title show correctly in the tab
title and the window title. However, if you change the focus to another tab and
then bring the focus back to the first tab, the window title says [object
HTMLImageElement], but the tab title is correct. If you refresh the tab, it
display correctly in both the tab and window title.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 tabs 
2. Goto http://phpbt.sourceforge.net/demo/ in the first tab
3. Switch to the second tab
4. Switch back to the first tab

Actual Results:  
Window title says [object HTMLImageElement]

Expected Results:  
Window title should say the title of the page, namely "phpBugTracker - Home"

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214832 ***

Comment 2

[John Mertic]

This is left unfixed from Bug 214832. Reopening.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that this is firebird-only -- I'm not seeing the problem in SeaMonkey.  In
fact, for SeaMonkey,

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/global/resources/content/bindings/browser.xml#240

does the right thing.  For firebird,
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbrowser.xml#359
is buggy because it uses contentDocument.title instead of doing this the right way.

Comment 4

[Unknown W. Brackets]

Attachment: A simpler test case

This should make sense; it's because there's an image with the "name" attribute
set to "title".

Seems like a bug to me, it shouldn't get the title from anywhere except the
title element, no?  But at least the cause is clear now - right?

-[Unknown]

Comment 5

[Unknown W. Brackets]

This problem is still an issue in 1.0PR.

The links referenced above are now, I belive:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbrowser.xml#387
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/global/resources/content/bindings/browser.xml#252

Unless I'm mistaken, the code that gets the tab title (which works) is here:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/content/widgets/tabbrowser.xml#685

I wonder if it could be changed such that the window title is set by the same
function? (there's probably reason for why it doesn't do this, but I tried.)

I'm going to request blocking-aviary1.0 on this - while it's not a big deal, I
did run into it again last night (to my recollection, on spreadfirefox.com no
less!  But I might be remembering wrong, and can't find it now..) and it seems
like a decent polish bug... at least maybe someone will look at it.  And I can't
imagine any localization impact....

Thanks,
-[Unknown]

Comment 6

[Baron Schwartz]

This may not be related, but I'm looking at an HTML document whose <TITLE>
attribute has &ldquo; and &rdquo; in it (that's left-double-quote and
right-double-quote entities, in case Bugzilla zaps the entities).  The tab shows
the title correctly, but the window title only shows up to the first entity.

Comment 7

[Unknown W. Brackets]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This may not be related, but I'm looking at an HTML document whose <TITLE>
> attribute has &ldquo; and &rdquo; in it (that's left-double-quote and
> right-double-quote entities, in case Bugzilla zaps the entities).  The tab shows
> the title correctly, but the window title only shows up to the first entity.

While that is a different bug, it would be resolved by the same suggestion
(assuming there is not a reason for it, such as platform rules on window title
characters) of using the same code to get the window's title as the tab's.

However, you may wish to look for a bug about that more specifically, or start a
new bug.  It is a different issue in its own right.

-[Unknown]

Comment 8

[chris hofmann]

over to ben

Comment 9

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Attachment: patch

bring over 'contentTitle' attr from xpfe tabbrowser and use that rather than
using contentDocument.title directly.

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

br & trunk fixed. 

Comment 11

[Stefan Pietschmann]

looks like it has been fixed on the branch, so could somebody please add the 
fixed-aviary1.0 keyword?