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Would you consider a new release?

It's been about 20 months now.

Cheers!

(Firefox) If you click an imported renamed tab to activate it, and quickly click the Tab ReTitle icon or shortcut while it is loading, the old custom title appears in your dialog box and can be manually reapplied when the tab is loaded! If you are not fast enough, the custom title is lost forever.

Is it possible to make this action an automatic behaviour of Tab Retitle?

This would be a solution for Issue 2(b) in #10:

(b) Tree Tabs restores tabs unloaded with the custom titles now (FINALLY!), but when they are loaded, the custom titles are overwritten (because the restored tab is not in retitle memory?). Very important as I often have to restore whole groups of tabs I have retitled previously.

This would also address the same problem of losing custom titles when importing from Onetab, which loads the tabs immediately - there is no possibility to do the above manual procedure with multiple tabs loading at the same time.

A modification of this might also be a workaround for #8

The default of Alt+Shift+X (which I interpret to mean Option+Shift+X) does not work on my Macbook, since that combination is used to produce the '˛' character on the system.

Allowing users to define their own hotkey would resolve the issue and just be useful overall.

Some questions and idea on this issue, which you have mentioned in issues 13 and 17

Firefox (not updated since 74), Windows 8.1

"This Tab" used to be persistent, so am I guessing right that FF renumbering tab IDs between sessions has only recently started?

If so,

1. Do you know which version changed this?
2. are you aware of any reason they have done this, or is it just another new bug they have added?

Suggestion: can I suggest you update the known issues on your addon page to point out the bug , add a link to a bug report about it, and encourage readers to click the link and upvote the bug report? (I have seen that done on other addon pages :)

(same for the PDF and moz pages bugs - there are years of bug reports complaining about them, nothing is done)

I noticed today (after TRT stopped working and I disable/re-renabled it) that

1. yes all my dozens of carefully retitiled "this tab"s are gone

2. a tab I opened today is called tab 1!
   (Does this mean that FF has renumbered all my tab IDs, in the same session, every time I open a tab, or has this number been allocated to fill a closed tab number? There must be some system... I think I'll leave that to you)

3. Another tab I created today (by duplicating another tab) is 315.

4. New just now: 3 tabs I retitled in this session using both "exact match" and "This Tab", all lost their titles. But the titles are still in the saved titles box. (I'll leave that for later - see if it self-resolves...)

I wish you add a feature that update the current tab title to the origina bookmark title.

The reason I need this is that I got a lot of tabs to rename from their url name to their actual title...

tab context menu is the logical place one would look for sth to rename current tab title :)

Carrying this over from the other site for users who might have the same question- a big thank you!

Hi,

First, thanks for this great extension.

My feature request: please add an option to delete all Saved Titles and/or add an option to edit your Saved Titles list as raw text.

I had a bug where I guess I hit the limit of saved titles (I don't know how many but several hundreds) and where I couldn't save any more custom titles (the extension would let me do it but it just wouldn't save). I'm pretty sure it was because of some kind of limit because if I deleted a few of my saved titles then I could rename some new tabs again.

So, I decided to delete all my saved titles, but the issue is you can't ctrl+a and delete the saved titles list, you have to MANUALLY click each time the delete button on each line (and if the line is too long it's not even always in the same place so I couldn't even automate it). It's painful and takes a lot of time. And if you want to delete some specific saved titles, if you have hundreds of them, it's a nightmare without being able to edit it as raw text (you can't CTRL+F, you can't select multiple lines, etc.).

Thanks in advance.

Thanks... any help would be appreciated!

Please get the firefox to fix their ridiculous little addon options box!
IT NEEDS

1. TO USE THE WHOLE PAGE.
2. TO WORK AT ZOOM LESS THAN 100% (Cannot even access the SCROLLBAR INSIDE THE SCROLLBAR, or see the delete buttons, at less than 100%!!!)
3. TO HAVE ADJUSTABLE FONT SIZE. (To fit things in the stupid box and work on different screens)
4. SEARCH within the box (how am I going to find a tab 3/4 of the way down?????)
   Thanks - in frustration!
   

Great Extension!

I am going to the same URL but in different containers, and would like to be able name them differently. It works fine temporarily, but if I reload the tabs, they are named the same.

Is this possible?

1. Summary

It would be nice, if would be possible allow multiple regular expressions for single domain.

2. Example

2.1. Expected behavior

For YouTube:

If window title contains Своя игра words:

    Tab ReTitle change window title to KiraJeopardyTitle

elif Что? Где? Когда? words:

    Tab ReTitle change window title to KiraWhatWhereWhenTitle

else no Своя игра or Что? Где? Когда?:

    Tab ReTitle not change window title

2.2. Tab ReTitle implementation

Allow both regular expression for *www.youtube.com* domain:

1. /.*Своя игра.*/KiraJeopardyTitle/
2. /.*Что\? Где\? Когда\?.*/KiraWhatWhereWhenTitle/

3. Argumentation

3.1. Common cause

Successful streaming use OBS Studio.

3.2. Details

As I described in #23, unfortunately, OBS Studio can't recognize window by title wildcard or regular expressions.

I need some OBS Studio actions for YouTube videos, that contains Своя игра in title, and another actions, if title contains Что? Где? Когда?. Currently, I can't do it.

Thanks.

App didn't function with tabs for PDFs. Would it be possible to add this? Thank you!

I first thought my regexes were wrong / not working at all, and then realized that it seems the extension sometimes/often fails to do the matching while/after a tab reload. I tried Ctrl+R, F5, right-clicking a tab to ask it to reload from the menu, selecting multiple tabs and asking them all to reload at once, and in many cases the extension doesn't retitle them. I'm not sure what are the exact conditions for this bug to be triggered or not.

This might be a race condition occurring depending on the timing of how fast Firefox loads a tab, maybe? Just guessing.

Dear developer,

please consider removing line 35 in background.js from your source code so that a page title – like the second line from a test string of a demonstration on the regular expressions 101 website – is not changed after the URL does match and the title doesn't match.

For comparison, the Title Manager user script can already manage page titles in this way after a line of code has been added to the header for compatibility reasons.

Best regards,
walmar

Hello,

I couldn't figure out where to put the regex pattern. Help?

Best,
Aleksey

It would save so much time and clicking if the old title was pre loaded selected - can hit delete if you don't want it, arrow keys to add before or after, only 1 click to modify! 🥇

I discovered what appears to be an odd bug retitling this page: https://smile.amazon.com/Native-Instruments-Komplete-Kontrol-Ultimate/dp/B076NWVQG1

With this it works as expected: /AmazonSmile: (.{0,46}).*/$1/gi and gives a title of: Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MKII w

But if I change the value "46" to "45" like this:/AmazonSmile: (.{0,45}).*/$1/gi it gives an error with a title of Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MKII | Regex Error: No pattern Match

Both regexes work as expected at the test site: https://regex101.com using this as the Test String: AmazonSmile: Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S61 MKII with Komplete 11 Ultimate: Musical Instruments

Dear @Lazyuki,

Your extension is brilliant and I specifically appreciate the temporary title option.

However, could you make this temporary option a little more durable so that it doesn't reset when I reload the tab?

Thank you!

Robert

Hello
thank you very much for sharing your great work!

I have a small suggestion:
ReTitle would be great to just add a Prefix to Titles, like:

• ToDo • $0
• Study • $0
• Homework • $0

It would be great if we could save this kind of default Title Patterns so that we can apply them with 2 clicks:

1. Open Tab ReTitle
2. Click to the pattern

Thanks a lot, kind regards,
Thomas

In Chrome, browse to:

chrome://extensions/?options=hilgambgdpjgljhjdaccadahckpdiapo

Click the bottom right GitHub icon.

When I rename a tab with "exact match" to the URL http::domain.com/path, I usally want the same renaming to apply to anchored urls like http::domain.com/path#section. Currently it appears the renaming does not apply when the url has the anchor name. It would be great to have the option to have "exact match" ignore #, ?, &. Maybe call it "path match"?

For pages that have raw, unstyled JSON, Firefox takes over and displays its own pretty interface for navigating the document. On these such pages, the extension is unable to change the name of the tab

I just installed ReTitle, and restarted Vivaldi. I'm trying to use the second option, persistent naming of the Tab. First try it worked, but a few minutes later switched back. Thereafter it did not work at all. I didn't try the other renaming options.

At the moment, it doesn't appear as if replacements I configure on one machine, appear on other machines with this addon installed.

Ideally, I'd like my replacements to be backed-up and synced between FireFox instances, as most addons do!

See information from Mozilla about this. <3

Tried both exact match and set for this tab- both times, when reopen firefox the titles are gone.

Doesn't happen all the time, just most of the time - any ideas?

I can save, e.g. for https://www.who.int/teams/risk-communication my preferred title is:

EPI-WIN: WHO information network for epidemics

– then when I view preferences for the extension, the title is listed.

However when I restart the browser, the list of saved titles is (if I'm not mistaken) always empty.

Environment

• Tab ReTitle 1.5.2
• Firefox 74.0
• FreeBSD-CURRENT

At https://firefox-storage-test.glitch.me/ for all four subsystems:

Good: Totally Working. (fullyOperational)

Thoughts

Should I assume an extensions conflict?

Other enabled extensions include Simple Tab Groups and Tree Style Tab.

For example, from the source of https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/10/30/realtek-usb-wifi-review/:

<title>Realtek RTL8188CUS &#8211; USB 802.11n WiFi Review | 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗</title>

It appears to be plain ASCII vermaden however when rendered in the title bar of a web browser, the effect is crafty:

The end result is invisible to extensions such as Diigo and Tab ReTitle:

https://www.diigo.com/profile/grahamperrin?query=%40vermaden.wordpress.com

Enhancement request

Please, can you adapt your extension for cases such as this?

Thank you.

Dear developer,

please also allow the end of the URL pattern with $ instead of * expression, so that the page title can be changed for a certain link level.

The differences between v1 and v2 are shown in a demonstration on the regular expressions 101 website.

Best regards,
walmar

So far, this extension has been great: it's easy to use and it works. The only minor issue I have is the inability to remove the context menu entry.

I only this extension for a couple of different sites, and it isn't very often that I need to change a website's title, so I never use the temporary title option. I also use several other extensions with context menu entries, so the fact that I can't turn off the entry for this extension makes my menu a bit more cluttered than it needs to be.

That's the only improvement I can think of. Everything else works perfectly.

• ❶ ContextMenu of the page, add a OFF option: 👇

• ❸ Add 🏃omnibox API

• ❹ Automatic renaming based on DOM attribute values.

Disaster! We can no longer salvage titles of unloaded tabs, FF has changed something so the old title, showing before the tab is loaded, can no longer be captured when clicked before it is overwritten!

Do you know anything about this?
Now #10 and #11 have become important!

Feature request - Firefox (copied from mozilla discourse page)

1. Is it possible to put ReTitle in tab right click context menu, with a mnemonic? (RightClick, R).

2. Could the right click enable renaming of UNSELECTED/UNLOADED tabs? Reasons:
   (a) saves having to navigate away from where you are, waiting for the tab to load, retitle then go back to the tab you were on before- distracting
   (b) Tree Tabs restores tabs unloaded with the custom titles now (FINALLY!), but when they are loaded, the custom titles are overwritten (because the restored tab is not in retitle memory). Very important as I often have to restore whole groups of tabs I have annotated previously! So rightclick and old name already in name entry box would make it a simple process to set/save the tab titles!

Such a great addon - indispensible. Thank you :-)

Is there any way to prevent booking.com and airbnb overwriting custom tab titles? (Firefox)

These are the WORST offenders as their own page titles are useless and users need heaps of tabs open to deal with multiple issues and a labyrinth of page locations. But they repeatedly expire logins, and every time a fresh login is required the custom tab title is deleted and replaced with their meaningless generic page names!

Would be really grateful for a fix for that.

I asked this on Reddit before, and someone suggested I'd post it as a feature request for ReTitle:

I would love to be able to add the name of the container the current tab is opened in to the name of the tab. This allows me to use automation to detect which container is active in my browser.

If you're open to such a feature (I suppose it would be FF only, as I don't think Chrome has any support for this), I can take a stab at it sometime soon.

@Lazyuki how do I clear a modified tab title and restore the original?

• What is the feature of selected/highlighted multiple tabs ❓

1. You can try to holdding Ctrl/Shift/Ctrl+Shift on the tab-bar and click the non-current tab.
2. At this point, you have selected multiple tabs at the same time.
3. Finally, you can perform batch operations on these selected tabs. e.g. Ctrl+W to batch closes them, F5 to batch reload them ... can also drag them in batches. etc...

• 🔌 So can you add to support for this browser kernel/API function (the highlighted API document can be used directly)

• Expected behavior:
  When the multiple tabs be selected/highlighted with holding Ctrl/Shift/Ctrl+Shift,
  At this time, it becomes an operation for the selected multiple tabs,
  that is, at this time, it cannot remain as an operation for the current tab/page.

• To sum up a sentence:
  ReTitle can support for selected/highlight multiple tabs with holding Ctrl/Shift/Ctrl+Shift.

1. Summary

Tab ReTitle BetaFeature: Regex Replacement doesn't work correctly with Windowed Firefox extension.

2. Example

2.1. Reproducibility

I reproduce the problem in the newest version of stable portable Firefox without any another extensions and user settings.

2.2. Data

1. YouTube URL, that contains Своя игра words in the title.

2. /.*Своя игра.*/KiraExampleTitle/ regular expression.

   

2.3. Steps to reproduce

I install both extensions: Tab ReTitle and Windowed.

I open example URL → Full Screen → Windowed → I check title of opened window.

2.4. Expected behavior

If Chromium:

    KiraExampleTitle window title

2.5. Firefox behavior

Else Firefox:

    https://www.youtube.com - KiraExampleTitle | Regex Error: No pattern Match - Mozilla Firefox

3. Argumentation

3.1. Common cause

Successful Firefox streaming via OBS Studio.

3.2. Details

I’m a streamer. I use Windowed extension, that show Firefox windows for my viewers without any toolbars.

If Firefox window title contains Своя игра words, I need some actions, if not contains — another actions. This is important to me. Unfortunately, OBS Studio can't recognize window by title wildcard or regular expressions (1, 2). To all windows having a Своя игра words in the title bar replace their title to some predefined title (KiraExampleTitle in my example) I use Tab ReTitle. But currently I have a bug.

4. Environment

1. Windows 10.0.18363 Pro N for Workstations 64-bit EN

2. Chromium 81.0.4044.129 (Official Build) (64-bit)

   1. Tab ReTitle 1.5.1
   2. Windowed 22

3. Firefox 76.0.1 (64-bit)

   1. Tab ReTitle 1.5.2
   2. Windowed 23

Thanks.

There is not much of a guide on how to use URL patterns. Hopefully if this gets answered it can be a big help to those of us who are not great in this programming language.

The current default title is the same for every single page on the site, so you could imagine it would be nice to customize it: KACE Systems Management Appliance Administrator Console

I am trying to retitle this example URL (and make it retitle even when the ID= variable changes):
https://skynet.mis.gov/adminui/machine.php?ID=295

I would like the ID variable to be a part of the title if possible. Example: Skynet - Device 295

My current code (not working - is retitling the entire domain instead):
*skynet.mis.\gov/(adminui/machine.php?ID=[^/])* | Skynet - Device ${1}

Could someone please show me what I should be using instead?

• Go to a website, rename using "Set for this tab" with a title like "NEW - $0". Title is now "NEW - original"
• Follow a link in the tab. Title is now "NEW - link1".
• Press the back button. Title is now "NEW - NEW - original" !!
• Refreshing the page properly restores the expected "NEW - original" title

This is one of the most useful extensions I have come across. :)

I think a tab-related extension might be able to work without this.

This article addresses my concerns:
https://www.howtogeek.com/188346/why-browser-extensions-can-be-dangerous-and-how-to-protect-yourself/

Here is an add-on that works with tabs that restricts which website can be accessed:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-override/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=recommended_fallback

The ability to rename tabs is important to my workflow, with someone that has ADHD. But all tab-renaming extensions currently require that all-inclusive permission.

Can something be done about this? I may be willing to contribute a PR. ( though I haven't worked with open-source or browser extensions before, and limited exposure to JS. )

Simple, title says it all. When reading documentation, I'd like to quickly select the title of the current page (i.e. the <h1>), right-click, and use "Set temporary title" without copy/pasting that text into the resultant dialog.

(Bonus idea: check the page for the highest-level semantic heading, pre-fill that if no text is selected? Although this may require more permissions for the extension, in which case … definitely don't. :P)

When we want to rename a tab, the renaming field comes empty. It makes its usage difficult when we want to make a minor change on the already written name.

(eg. just want to fix one letter of the original title or renamed title)

As an improvement, this field may come already filled with the current tab name. Furthermore, the text may come as selected to easily rename the whole name. By this way, this improvement will not affect the existing user experience and make the renaming or fixing long or complex texts easy.

Hello,

I installed ReTitle because I have multiple email accounts on gmail.com and when I have multiple tabs open, they all say "Inbox - " and I can't tell them apart.

The full tab title is "Inbox (3) - [email protected] - Gmail" so I thought I'd use ReTitle to change the tab title to "[email protected]" so I can tell my Gmail tabs apart.

However I ran into two issues:

1. It seems the URL pattern is used as a key, so I can't add two rules with the URL pattern mail.google.com/mail
   1b. Workaround for this is to alter the pattern, for example *mail.google.com/mail* and *mail.google.com/mai*.
2. However, it seems that only the first pattern takes effect. The second rule is ignored.

This works well once I figured out how to do a Regex to remove a specific annoying phrase that Amazon inserts at the beginning of every page Title. I don't like that because it messes up the default name of my bookmarks.

Here's the regex I used: /AmazonSmile: (.{1,45}).*/$1/

This removes the literal phrase "AmazonSmile: " from the beginning of any page title on smile.amazon.com. It removes the first phrase and then inserts the rest of the title but only up to 45 characters in length. If the original title is longer, it truncates the rest. I found a Regex testing site that helped me figure this out. https://regex101.com/r/vMzP9d/6

My suggestion is to add this to your list of Regex examples in the add-on as there is currently no example that clearly showed how to either delete a first part of a Title or truncate the length of a Title. As a regex newbie it took me a little while to figure out, so it might help someone else.

Dear Lazyuki,

Thank you for ReTitle.

If you right click > Set temporary title > button Cancel, it leaves the page with title "null."

I've tried using this extension, but it is unfortunately too difficult for me to figure out as it is now, and part of that comes from the reliance on regexes and/or the way the UI is presented.

I mostly never can figure out regex in general, as they are quite cryptic. I would have preferred if there was a way to use wildcards * instead, though I don't know if that's easily usable in practice.

Some examples of usecases:

• avan.tech has a really long title that looks like "Avan.Tech - Communication + Collaboration + Commerce | the_actual_page_title", so I would like to be able to shorten it to just the_actual_page_title, by telling this extension to "search for: 'Avan.Tech - Communication + Collaboration + Commerce | *" (notice the * at the end) and to replace the resulting title with what was found in *, i.e. the variable part.
• Social networks (FB, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) constantly pollute the titles with notification counters such as "(1) ", "(3) ", "(12) " and I want to stop that attention-grabbing madness, so I would like to be able to search and replace those counters easily.

In the first example above, I went to regex101.com and determined that, in substitution mode, I needed to:

• Match/search for /Avan\.Tech - Communications \+ Collaboration \+ Commerce \| (.*)/
• Substitute for $1
  ...so that it would return only the part after the |.

However, I was utterly unable to put that into practice into ReTitle's GUI. It doesn't have match/search and substitute/replace fields, it only has one big field for "New title" when you click the toolbar button on the target website, and that's very confusing. I first tried putting this in that field: /Avan\.Tech - Communications \+ Collaboration \+ Commerce \| (.*)/$1// but that didn't work, so I then tried without the $1// at the end, tried without any starting/ending /, etc. Nothing worked there and the UI left me puzzled as to what was going on. In the end I devised a somewhat simpler regex that worked: /(.*) \| (.*)/$2 — AvanTech/ but I don't necessarily see why this works while the other didn't.

Filing this bug report in the hope that this user experience feedback can be somewhat useful :)

Would be nice to have an option to export all the added URL options from the Advanced TAB.
Maybe to export/import all changes to the extension.

As I do have a lot of custom URL added in there.

Thank You,

Dear @Lazyuki,

I used "Set for this tab" on several tabs.

Then I restarted Chrome.

These tabs got reset to their default names.

Can you confirm this behaviour?

Thank you!

I am new to regex so maybe theres another way around this, also its not super important.

Anyway youtube sometimes gives you a tab like this: "(1) Title of Video", if you have notifications from youtube. I wanted to get rid of the (1) .

So I wrote this regex replacement thing: /^([0-9]+)./‎/
(which has an empty character between // at the end)
I tested it by googling stuff starting with (1)

It works but if there is no (1) then it says "| Regex Error: No pattern Match", but I do not care.

So maybe there could be a setting in the advanced features not to show this message. Up to you
Or maybe there is a regex I could have written that accounts for this, if you know it feel free to comment