Closed Bug 411594 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Window title does not change when you change tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Tabbed Browser
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: worcester12345, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010805 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010805 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Summary says it all.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open several tabs.
2.Change tabs.
3.Observe title of window.
Actual Results:  
Window title stays the same regardless of which tab you are on.

Expected Results:  
Window title should change when you change tabs.

Hitting refresh/reload button will update the window title.
Flags: blocking-firefox3?
Keywords: polish
Version: unspecified → Trunk
This is usually a symptom of a thrown exception somewhere in browserland. Do you see any errors in the Error Console when you set javascript.options.showInConsole to true? Does it work in Safe mode?
Keywords: polish
Version: Trunk → unspecified
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Are you using McAfee SiteAdvisor?
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is usually a symptom of a thrown exception somewhere in browserland. Do
> you see any errors in the Error Console when you set
> javascript.options.showInConsole to true? Does it work in Safe mode?
> 
How do I set this to true? I'll try in safe mode and see.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Are you using McAfee SiteAdvisor?
> 
No.


For the record, it has been doing this for at least a couple days. I figured it was just another trunk bug, but it was finally annoying enough to file a bug.

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > This is usually a symptom of a thrown exception somewhere in browserland. Do
> > you see any errors in the Error Console when you set
> > javascript.options.showInConsole to true? Does it work in Safe mode?
> > 
> How do I set this to true? I'll try in safe mode and see.

Using about:config.
Can someone confirm this one please?
(In reply to comment #6)
> Can someone confirm this one please?

Have you tried in Safe Mode, as asked in comment 1?
I am not able to repro this using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020404 Minefield/3.0b3pre. No errors in the console when I switch the about:config pref as well.
I saw this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2 and JSView 2.0.2.  Disabling the JSView extension corrected the behavior.

JSView 2.0.2 had some sort of problem that caused it not to work with Fx 3, so 2.0.3 was issued yesterday.  (It's not available from addons.mozilla.org yet, but can be obtained from the home page.)  I've installed it, and the window caption now changes when I switch tabs.

Worcester12345, are you using JSView?
please renominate if you can reproduce on a new profile.
Flags: blocking-firefox3?
(In reply to comment #9)
...
> Worcester12345, are you using JSView?
> 

Negative.
Could be another extension.  Have you tried running in Safe Mode?  I isolated JSView as the culprit on my machine by running in Safe Mode, determining that I couldn't reproduce the problem, then running normally and disabling my extensions one at a time until the problem went away.
It seemed OK in safe mode. I think it might be Session Saver extension. I'm currently using the most recent, 0.1.6.9.

Will continue testing.
Thanks; please only reopen when/if you can experience in safe mode, unless you intend this bug to end up in extension compatibility land...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
For the record, these are the extensions I have which are enabled.
For now, it is less work to hit refresh, which brings the info into the title bar, than to dig through all the extensions. 

    * Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3
    * Add Bookmark Here 0.5.8
    * Bookmark Backup 0.4.6
    * Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.6.5
    * Context Highlight 0.3
    * Context Search 0.4.1
    * Copy All Urls 0.8.0
    * DictionarySearch 2.0.2
    * DOM Inspector 1.9b4pre
    * Duplicate Tab 0.9.1
    * FLST 0.8.6
    * Forecastfox 0.9.6
    * Go Up 1.0
    * GSuggest 0.1
    * HashColouredTabs 0.3.3
    * Homeland Security Threat Level 0.52
    * IE View 1.3.5
    * InfoLister 0.9f.2
    * Make Link 3.0.3
    * Nightly Tester Tools 1.3b4
    * Paste and Go 2 0.8
    * Print/Print Preview 0.5
    * Save Complete 2006.10.01
    * Session Manager 0.6.1.10
    * Sun Cult 1.0.200801
    * text/plain 1.1.8
    * Update Channel Selector 1.0.2
    * View Source Chart 2.5.03
OK, I've narrowed it down to these two:
(I didn't even know I had HashColoredTabs turned on, as I didn't really even like it that much. Now my sessions restore properly as well, where before, the spinning dots in the tabs just sat there.

    * GSuggest 0.1
    * HashColouredTabs 0.3.3
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Further narrowing has GSuggest as the final culprit.

HashColoredTabs is responsible for the spinning in the tabs, but the session restores fine, and the titles now change properly.

Thanks for your patience.
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