382278 - Title bar does not update when I switch tabs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Not Important]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: 

Title in title bar in win xp does not change to reflect tab being viewed. Title is always the title of the most recently opened tab

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a tab, see title
2.Open another tab, see title
3.Switch back to first tab, see title is from second tab
Actual Results:  
Titles for all tabs are the title of the last tab

Expected Results:  
Should show title of open tab

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a reinstall in a new empty folder
- a new profile? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Not Important]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you tried:
> - Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
> - a reinstall in a new empty folder
> - a new profile? 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Thanks for your reply. I did figure out what is causing this problem, its the Veoh Browser Plugin. As soon as I disabled it, everything was fine. Thanks for your help.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Reporter, does this happen on trunk as well?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

Comment 4

[Not Important]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Reporter, does this happen on trunk as well?
> 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk
> 

I can't say, the Veoh plugin is not compatible with trunk.

Comment 5

[Warner Young]

I see it on the latest trunk build "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070613 Minefield/3.0a6pre".

When I switch back to the last pre-Places build I have (20070518), the title bar updates when I switch tabs.  Switching to the latest trunk build, the title bar does not update.

I tried this in safe mode with trunk, and I still see the problem.

Comment 6

[Warner Young]

I just tested this with today's build "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070615 Minefield/3.0a6pre" and a new profile, no extensions, and I still see this behavior.  I think that should be enough to say this is a real problem.  I hope I'm not overstepping any bounds changing bug to NEW status.

Comment 7

[Liam K.]

Yes, I don't use the Veoh plugin, and I have this problem.

Comment 8

[Warner Young]

WFM now, with latest trunk build (20071023).  I think it's been working for a while, actually.

Comment 9

[Pacific Blue]

Yes, this problem is there. I am not using Veoh plugin. 


The title bar also doesnt get updated if 'we close the tab'.

OS :: VISTA 
Fresh Install in new directory

Comment 10

[Bartlomiej Celary]

I am not sure if I should open a new bug, but there is another thing related to tab switching. Beside the fact, the title will not update, the page search will work only on the page which title is in the title bar...

So e.g. I have 2 tabs and the title says "Tab 1" and after switching to "Tab 2" the title still says "Tab 1". When doing search (aka the '/' button), I am actually searching "Tab 1" page, and not "Tab 2" which is currently active.

I thought it may help.

BTW, the issue only started to occur when I opened up a particularly long HTML file (lots of text) so not sure if anyone reported this already...

BTW: I am using Firefox 3 beta 4, so not sure how old is the code here...

Comment 11

[Cees T.]

Bug 337915? Bug 419813 implies McAfee messes this up too.

Confirming the search bar working on the title page instead of the focused tab's page. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is WFM in version 3.x (trunk for me), including comment 9