A Firefox addon which will put the web page address (URL) into the window's title. Useful for customizing KeePass's auto-type
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Hello @erichgoldman
I think it would be very useful to have the possibility to add other data in the title.
For example, in my case it would be useful to include the date and time of opening the current tab.
Thanks for the extension.
Best regards,
Claudio
another (now unmainained) addon is able to add url to pages with http auth.
Please consider this as feature request
I can not open my Photostation in Firefox with activated plugin. Everytime the loading of the site stops, and I got an script error. The script doesn't answer. Only if add-url-to-window-title is deactivated the site loads without errors.
Migrated from Issue #2:
The Yahoo pop-up login dialog generated via the my.yahoo.com sign-in has the same problem. However if the URL of the pop-up is pasted into the Firefox URL address bar the URL-in-Title works fine.
Replication visit: https://my.yahoo.com/ and click "Sign In" at top right.
Note that the URL bar is grayed out. It does not seem to load the add-on at all. The event is not attached. When running a debug with dev tools no breakpoints are triggered when the pop-up window is loaded. Perhaps Firefox treats restricted/locked down windows differently and they are not accessible by the normal tabs api.
Note, that if you visit https://login.yahoo.com/ in a regular tab/window then the add-on is activated. Some further research will be done.
FF 90.0.1 (64-bit) on FreeBSD.
No effect at all after plugin installation. Restarting FF does not change anything.
Any ideas?
{
"manifestDescription": {
"message":"Добавляет полный URL или доменное имя текущей страницы в заголовок окна. Что позволяет сторонним приложениям (например KeePass) идентифицировать текущую открытую страницу."
,"description":"Description in the manifest file"
}
,"optionsSectionHeader": {
"message":"Настройки AU2WT"
,"description":"In extension options, the main header"
}
,"optionsShowFullUrlHeader": {
"message":"Что должно отображаться в заголовке окна?"
,"description":"In extension options, header for showFullUrl setting"
}
,"optionsShowFullUrlText": {
"message":"Отображать URL целиком?"
,"description":"In extension options, text next to checkbox for showFullUrl setting"
}
,"optionsShowFullUrlHelp": {
"message":"При установленном флажке - URL отображается целиком; При снятом - отображается только доменное имя."
,"description":"In extension options, helper text for showFullUrl setting"
}
,"optionsSeparatorStringHeader": {
"message":"Строка-разделитель"
,"description":"In extension options, header for separatorString setting"
}
,"optionsSeparatorStringHelp": {
"message":"Строка символов, которые будут разделять оригинальный заголовок и URL-адрес (например 'Заголовок - URL' или 'Заголовок :: URL')"
,"description":"In extension options, helper text for separatorString setting"
}
,"optionsShowFieldAttributesHeader": {
"message":"Отображение атрибутов полей ввода текста"
,"description":"In extension options, header for showFieldAttributes setting"
}
,"optionsShowFieldAttributesText": {
"message":"Показывать атрибуты поля при установленном в нём курсоре ввода текста?"
,"description":"In extension options, text next to checkbox for showFieldAttributes setting"
}
,"optionsShowFieldAttributesHelp": {
"message":"При установленном флажке – атрибуты 'name' и 'id' <input /> полей будут добавляться к заголовку окна когда в них установлен курсор ввода текста. Это может пригодиться, когда KeePass недостаточно одного URL страницы для корректной работы авто-заполнения. Это также может пригодиться при двухэтапной аутентификации. Вы просто создаёте команду авто-заполнения для конкретного поля, а затем настраиваете авто-заполнение на работу с URL и конкретным полем, в котором сейчас находится курсор ввода текста."
,"description":"In extension options, helper text for showFieldAttributes setting"
}
,"optionsSaveButtonText": {
"message":"Сохранить настройки"
,"description":"In Options Popup - Text which is shown on the save button"
}
,"optionsSavedHeader": {
"message":"Настройки сохранены"
,"description":"In Options Popup - Header for green div that is shown after clicking save button, to confirm saving happened"
}
,"optionsSavedMessage": {
"message":"Чтобы увидеть изменения, вам может потребоваться обновить вкладки."
,"description":"In Options Popup - Text that is shown after clicking save button, to confirm saving happened"
}
,"optionsDonateLinkText": {
"message":"Поддержать автора $2.22"
,"description":"In Options Popup - Link that leads to donation page"
}
,"optionsHelpLinkText": {
"message":"Помощь & ЧаВо"
,"description":"In Options Popup - Link that leads to help page"
}
}
I got some kind of permissions error. So I installed it "unpacked" after cloning the repo. Unfortunately, after that I can't reproduce the error so I can't give you much to work with.
Other extensions save their settings to storage, and then it’s easy to keep those settings in dotfiles.
However I don’t see a directory for add-url-to-window-title in there:
% ls -l ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/browser-extension-data
total 16
drwx------ 2 m users 4096 Feb 18 05:09 [email protected]
drwx------ 2 m users 4096 Feb 19 01:23 [email protected]
drwx------ 2 m users 4096 Feb 19 01:34 [email protected]
drwx------ 2 m users 4096 Feb 19 01:23 [email protected]
%
It would be super-cool to be able to keep your settings in dotfiles, too. =)
Hello, Erich! Thank you for this great extension!
On many websites I have noticed that with this extension enabled, the window title many times is not updated properly. For example:
Now disable the extension:
This is just a harmless example. But sometimes I search for something on my search engine, for example "Firefox 41", and then use the search engine's own form to query for another unrelated word (eg. "Chocolate Ice Cream"), but the title remains the old, so after switching tabs, when I want to find the tab with the search for "Chocolate Ice Cream", I have to look for the tab named "Firefox 41".
Thank you for your attention!
The URL seems to get html escaped when added to the title bar.
For eg. go to url: https://www.candyjapan.com/口
And see the title!
It displays for me as : 口 | https://www.candyjapan.com/%E5%8F%A3 - Mozilla Firefox
I've set | as the separator.
thanks @erichgoldman for creating and maintaining this! the paypal donation link in the readme doesn't seem to be working anymore.
Separated from Issue #2 to focus just on the Mint self-contained logon page.
If you visit Mint.com and click the "Log In" link it will reveal an input form. The add-on works on this form. However, if you click the "Login In" button to submit the form and the fields are blank or on an error you are sent to a stand alone logon page at https://wwws.mint.com/login.event
Before reaching "login.event" you are first redirected from: https://wwws.mint.com/loginJumper.event
On https://wwws.mint.com/login.event if you have enabled "Show the field attributes when a text input field has focus?" selecting and input field will not add the form fields attributes to the title.
E.g. just https://www.google.com/search for https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blah.
That seems like a useful compromise? =)
KeePass Target Windows support regular expressions. The field attribute strings that add-url-to-window-title add, contains the left bracket character "[" that is special character in regular expressions and must be escaped in a regular expression.
Would it be possible to change the posted attribute strings so that they are compatible with regular expressions; or add an option that either strips, or substitutes alternate characters that are not special characters used in regular expressions?
Note: I prefer to use the special regular expression character '|' (without the quotes) as my separator sting so I would hope that if an option to strip special characters out of the posted Title were implemented, it would not apply to the separator string.
Hey,
just another example with the title not updating. I use Firefox 45.0.1.
If i disable JS on www.mv-werneck.de everything is fine. If it is enabled, the window title will not update when clicking through the navigation (look for menu point "Verein", where you can toggle visibility somewhere in the content).
There is a little script that uses document.write() to write the open tag of an div-element, but doesn't close it. It is closed later in another <script></script> section. I think this is done to make the content in the div-element also appear if you disable JS.
The unclosed element causes Speculative Parsing in Firefox to fail, so it needs to be parsed again. That might be the reason for that bug?
I hope it helps a bit.
The bug is also still present for me with the sites mentioned in #6 and #7.
Best greets
Stonecrusher
/edit: Console in firefox suggests this. It's made for the webmaster, but still may be useful.
I would like to configure a KeePassXC entry auto-type to look for a window title that includes the Account Alias / ID to which the user is trying to sign-in. This account Alias / ID is present when you go to, for example https://myaccountalias.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
Add the Account Alias field value to the title (or make the title include a configurable set of page elements)
Enabling this would allow me to auto-type for the correct account alias without having to scan the list of ALL auto-type enabled AWS entries. This can save a lot of time if I have many distinct AWS credentials, across many AWS accounts.
I don't know how to add a specific element of the page in the title, and this is not configurable.
Switching between AWS accounts is a common enough use case that I think it would make both this extension, and KeePassXC, more useful to more people.
LastPass has no solution for this. My move away from it was rather seamless thanks to this extension, except for the AWS signin page use case.
If a site offers the login via a http authentication dialog, the titlebar of this dialog does not reflect the URL or hostname of the site. Could you please add this feature?
Hi eric,
big thanks for your work! I use your extension every day and it helps me a lot.
I have problems with the above website https://webmail.strato.com
If you open the page the URL will be shown in the Title bar for a very short period of time and then overwritten. If you then go into Add-On settings and uncheck/check the "Show full URL?" option the URL will be correctly added by your Add-On but the original Windows title dissappears.
Would be great if you could take a look.
P.S: I use
Firefox ESR 45.3.0
Add-On v.1.01.1
When "Show the full URL?" is checked yes, it should include the protocol (https://) per https://github.com/erichgoldman/add-url-to-window-title/blob/web-extension/managetitle.js#L204 by calling document.URL however, this is being clipped.
Fixing this could break some people's auto-type rules if they made their regex already and didn't include the protocol. We could make this option into a drop down multiple choice instead of a boolean. Most likely outcome will be that some users autotypes will break.
It would be great to have a setting that when enabled removes the trailing slash from the hostname so that Window titles look pretty while switching tabs/windows.
While we're at it, removing the "www." part for hostnames will make it even more awesome.
I can help with writing the regexes for that if you'd like 🙏
Hi,
I am a long time user of your addon. Crucial for me with KeePassX under linux.
Unfortunately it seemed to have stopped working since firefox update to v52.0.2
I can't access it's "preferences" anymore (so on about:addons, I select the addon, then click the "Preferences" button, then a page opens but there are no preferences anymore, just the addons description and the "donate" button...).
And most of all: It does not add the url anymore to the window title (no matter which site).
Could you help?
Of course this would be the perfect moment to donate... but the DONATE function is broken :(((
See my bug-report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1354479
Tormen
Context : I have around 2700 tab opened in my Firefox browser, waiting to be read or sorted in bookmark.
Other extensions look to not specially slow down in this use-case, but this one, yes.
Hello, I have some printing problems from time to time. At last I figured out why, now I'm just missing the how :)
Print Edit 16.4 and
Add URL to Window Title 1.01 disabled
Firefox 44.0.2, Windows 10.
Address bar URL:
https://plex.tv/
Tab name/tooltip/title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices" (same having all add-ons disabled)
1. Print Edit enabled
1.2 Tab name/tooltip/title:
Plex: "Your media on all your devices"
2. Print Edit print dialog title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - Mozilla Firefox" (this string is sent to the printer/print job name, " - Mozilla Firefox" is added to the actual tab name content)
3. Add URL to Window Title 1.01 enabled
3.1 Tab name/tooltip/title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - https://plex.tv/"
3.2 Print Edit print dialog title:
"Plex: Your media on all your devices - https://plex.tv/ - https://plex.tv/ - Mozilla Firefox"
When the base title content is very long, the duplicated (when unusually long) URL + " - Mozilla Firefox" makes a printout fail using Print Edit. No error from the printer, the windows print manager/queue just stalls and eventually clears. No options in Print Edit.
Example:
http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html
end up as
2016 års kalender för privatpersoner | Skatteverket - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.html - http://www.skatteverket.se/funktioner/kalenderarkiv/2016privat/14mars.5.3810a01c150939e893f14fd.ht
note the 2 last characters of .html and " - Mozilla Firefox" is missing (string len limit?). I can't print this page using Print Edit - but it does work using the basic native (ctrl+p) print dialog.
Solution; disable/don't use/talk to Print Edit?
Well, yes. But..
As expected (according to 2.), print Edit will add " - Mozilla Firefox". That's OK! What I can't figure out is why the URL is duplicated, having Add URL to Window Title 1.01 enabled? Is it all on Print Edit or is your (great) add-on somehow shooting twice? :)
Cheers
Edit: formatting error due to quotes wrecked the underline tag
Hello,
The title of popup for an http auth doesn't contains any url.
For example:
https://auth-demo.aerobatic.io/protected-standard/
On keepass, the window just contains "Authentification requise" (in french version) without any url (therefore, it can't be used for autotype in keepass).
Could you fix that ?
Thanks in advance & congratz for this great extension.
Max
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In my limited testing I have noted two sites that seem able to defeat add-url-to-window-title's
ability to post the field attributes of the field that has the focus. I am posting them in case you have an interest in investigating examples like this.
As requested on issue #6, this is a way to reproduce the "title not updated" problem on searx.me:
If you skip step one and search directly from searx.me, the title will always be: "searx - searx.me/ - Firefox", but it should be "%s - searx - searx.me/ - Firefox" instead!
After working properly for some time, URLs no longer appear in the Firefox title bar. Clicking the Option button for the extension in the Add-ons Manager just brings up the description of the extension, without the Settings section. Restarting the browser usually doesn't work, but sometimes it does.
Hi,
First of all really nice and helpful extension, any chance to make it works with 57? and any estimation when?
Thank you in advance.
Currently, installing add-url-to-window-title addon will disable multiprocess on Firefox Stable (Firefox 50).
Test procedure:
Initial result, things seems to be working correctly:
Tested Platforms:
The original page title is passed through the sanitizer before being used to compose the new title, which removes, among other things, the ' character. So any page titled like "Ash's Profile" will become something like "Ashs Profile - facespace.biz/".
Apostrophes in the original title should be retained.
This is a little off topic. Reading the code, it looks like I can add "more stuff" to the title by modifying titleFormatter(). I'd like to add the local chrome user (as in https://www.pcworld.com/article/2089364/how-to-create-and-manage-multiple-user-profiles-in-chrome.html) to the title, since it will help me select the right window when tabbing through several browser windows. I can't find the code to extract it, however. Can that information be obtained from the extension api?
Cool extension btw. Thank you.
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