319390 - Long page titles stay in Window List, but not in the titlebar

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Navigate to a page with a really long title; e.g. bug 216714.
2. Click back.

Note that the correct page title (the one you're currently viewing) is shown in the titlebar, but the old page's title (the one with the really long title) is still shown in the Window List as the window's title.

I filed this with GNOME, but then realized that it doesn't occur with other applications; e.g. Opera or Epiphany.

Comment 1

[erratico]

I can confirm and add to this.

A very long <title></title> tag (say, several paragraphs) will also affect browser behaviour, specifically page-rendering, in both the ordinary browser view and in the Print Preview.

To reproduce:

 1. build a nomical local webpage, and fill the <title></title> with text at least equivalent to 2 or 3 paragraphs

 2. load the page

 3. load an arbitrary other page (AOP)

 4. AOP will not render: your doctored page will remain rendered

 5. File -> Print Preview

 6. AOP will render in Print Preview

 7. Close Print Preview

 8. AOP now renders in normal browser view

This is at least the reproduceable behaviour.  I encountered one or two other things that I have not been able to reproduce.

Comment 2

[u238063]

It's not possible to get it to change from a "long" title to a "short" title, but the window list does update when switching between pages with different "long" titles.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

So, it turns out this /was/ a bug in GNOME. It's been fixed upstream in Metacity: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330671.