299074 - Can not rename tabs. They automatically use web page title instead of bookmark title.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Rudo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

See above. I have a whole series of tabs that look identical because they are
truncated, with no way to differentiate between them. If bookmark names were
used (or allowable), this would not be an issue.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Simply create bookmarks in a bookmark folder where the beginning words are
identical.


Actual Results:  
They can not be differentiated.

Expected Results:  
It should have permitted the use of customized names in the tabs.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This would lead to some pretty confusing UI, in my opinion, and the convention
of using the page title as the tab title has been around forever.

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 117045/Suite bug 249497?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

So not going to happen in Firefox.

Comment 4

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 312596 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

Safari uses the bookmark title as the tab title, but I don't like that.