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Robert Mohr

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Oct 24, 2003, 4:46:35 PM10/24/03
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Will wrote:

> I use Mozilla at work becuase of its obvious advantages over MSIE. The
> problem is that I generally have many tabs open at one time, and the tabs
> display the <TITLE> of the HTML page</TITLE>.
>
> What would be nice is to have a way to rename the tabs so that I knew what I
> have open at a glance. The web-based software that we use cannot rename the
> pages for us if they are in our sales control panel -- only if it is in the
> shopping area of the site. Sometimes we have many customers' data pages open
> at once, and it would be nice to separate the different tabs with a unique
> name, instead of "Notes for..."
>
> Will K
> (reply-to in email address: remove "-nospam-" from address!)
>
>

Tabbrowser Extensions (see Firebird help site) allows you to use the
text of the link you clicked in place of the <title> text.
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Robert Mohr
moh...@osu.edu

Will

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Oct 24, 2003, 4:43:41 PM10/24/03
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Mooquackwooftweetmeow

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Oct 24, 2003, 6:07:25 PM10/24/03
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2003-10-24 20:46 UTC: Robert Mohr murmured:

You can also manually change the title.

-- Greg “that's counterfeit Fairy Liquid!” Nicholson

Neil

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Oct 24, 2003, 7:02:25 PM10/24/03
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Will wrote:

>What would be nice is to have a way to rename the tabs so that I knew what I have open at a glance.
>

Bookmarklet:
javascript:void(document.title=prompt('Edit tab
title:',document.title)||document.title);

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