701280 - Firefox does not show contents of <title> in title bar unless the menubar is present

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[hkeysh]

Attachment: Untitled-1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Unchecked tabs on top


Actual results:

Title bar is blank and the space is wasted when not using tabs on top mode.


Expected results:

Title bar should contain the <title> of the page even if the tabs are not on top.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

This is true.
Did this work in Firefox 7?

Where is the Firefox menu button in your screenshot?

Comment 2

[hkeysh]

(In reply to :aceman from comment #1)
I'm sorry I had an addon that removed the menu button since I almost never use it
As far is FF 7 is concerned, it seems from this support thread it goes all the way back to FF4.

https://support.mozilla.com/questions/796749

Comment 3

[hkeysh]

Attachment: retaken screenshot of bug

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm pretty sure this was an intentional change, as dumb as it seems to me: Limi can you confirm and mark this bug WONTFIX if that's true?

I've written the "Aero Window Title" extension to give you the correct behavior, at least on Windows": https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/796749#answer-272976

Comment 5

[:aceman]

But notice this bug is against Windows XP.

Comment 6

[hkeysh]

Should be marked as windows xp and w7, not sure about win2k and below.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm pretty sure that my extension works on Windows XP also...

Comment 8

[:aceman]

I think this bug is valid, should be NEW. If it is then decided it is intentional then it should be cleanly WONTFIXED.

Comment 10

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Yes. Can somebody from UI or product please resolve this bug appropriately?

Comment 11

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

UX made this decision back in 4.0. There is an extension on add-ons that adds the title, bsmedberg wrote it and I think he's maintaining it as well.

Comment 12

[Samuel Bronson]

Just because it was intentional doesn't mean it's not a bug!

Comment 13

[Samuel Bronson]

Attachment: Luna screenshot

Comment 14

[Samuel Bronson]

Also, for reference, the decision seems to have been made in bug 572160, comment 36.

Comment 15

[Samuel Bronson]

(Did UX *really* decide that a blank, but full-sized, title bar was desirable in some way?)

Comment 16

[Samuel Bronson]

So, I recently learned that it looks JUST AS STUPID when you have a non-maximized window on Windows 7, so I guess they really DO want it to look that way for some inexplicable reason.  (I had been assuming that the space was actually used for tabs under Aero.)