User-Defined Name for Each Firefox Window on my Desktop

[redpla]

I use one FF window for social media, another FF window for ebay/amazon/retailers, another window for news, another for weather/sea-state forecasts, another FF window for webmail clients, etc. It would be *really* useful if the pop-up in my menu bar (when I hover over a window icon) could have a user-editable name for the window. "Social", "Shopping", "eMail", etc.

I.e.: could we manually enter the window-name in the title-bar for each FF window?

OS: Kunbuntu 22.04, pretty much bog-standard using the default task manager.

[Jon]

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[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler

[epiqu1n]

Yes please! That add-on looks good and I'm definitely going to give it a shot, but it would be even better to have this as a built-in feature!

[CnAlex]

Add the function of naming windows / 建议增加为窗口命名功能

It is recommended to add the function of naming windows like the Google Browser.

建议增加像谷哥浏览器一样的 为窗口命名功能。

[Jon]

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[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/window-titler/

[lnelson]

In addition to being able to name windows, I would love to be able to color code them using the new, snazzy palettes that have been introduced. I really try to keep my multiple on-going projects in their own window so the size of the tabs does not shrink to the point I cannot read them.

[golemus]

Please add this. Chrome and Edge have "Name Window..." option in this context menu (see pic). Firefox should as well. There is "title renamer" addon but it is too complex solution and should really be integrated feature of the product.

[s1fly]

Name windows and send tabs between them

This is one is for productivity and managing work in Firefox. I think there was a discussion about getting work done in Firefox, but I can't seem to find it.

When Firefox has more than one window open, it would be useful to be able to name them and then be able to send tabs between the named windows. I know there is an add-on for naming windows, but this would be a contextual option when right-clicking a tab.

I have to use Chrome for work and I have two displays, one I use for communication and research, the other for the work I am doing. Quite often I move tabs between windows to organise data on my screen. In Firefox, this is difficult has the options are limited to Move to the end, Move to start or Move to new window. With Chrome, you are able to move to named windows, see attached screenshot.

So the ask is

1. Add the ability to name a window by right-clicking the top of the window and adding a name.
2. Add an option when right-clicking a tab to send it to a named window.

[Jon]

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[Jon]

There's a similar idea here for the ability to name windows:

User-Defined Name for Each Firefox Window on my Desktop 

[s1fly]

To add to this, there should be an option to move a tab between named windows. This would be a boost to productivity. For work, I will have email/chat in one window and work in another. When open docs, I quite often need things side-by-side so need to move tabs around. To keep track with large projects, it's so easy in Chrome to right-click a tab and send it to the correct window.

In Firefox, this is difficult has the options are limited to Move to the end, Move to start or Move to new window. 

So the ask is

1. Add the ability to name a window by right-clicking the top of the window and adding a name.
2. Add an option when right-clicking a tab to send it to a named window.

[s1fly]

Thanks @Jon perhaps this one can be closed off then

[linux_enjoyer]

I would love to see these feature implemented. In my opinion the secondary feature being requested in this thread (ability to easily move tabs between named windows) should be moved to a separate feature request and linked with this one as a dependency (if possible).

This would bring feature parity between Firefox and Chromium derived browsers. In Chromium based browsers this is possible and built-in to the browser: " Hamburger Menu > More tools > Name Window".

I would like to use this as a productivity feature, to be able to set simplified window names. My use-case it to have separate windows for various web applications, such as: Slack, Outlook, Jira, etc.

The "Window Titler" Firefox Extension has been brought up as addressing the need for this feature. This extension does not address my use-case. It adds a window name prefix in square brackets, e.g.: "[My Custom Name]", however after the brackets, the window still is named per the tab name. I do not want any of the "auto naming" to be present in the window name.

As it stands, I find myself using Chromium-based browsers more than I wish to, due to the lack of this feature. I otherwise love Firefox and want to use it more. Thank you!

[MechanicalCat]

I've thought further about this, and have a more generalised tab-based (rather than window-based) suggestion:

• Have the option to tag any FF tab with one alphanumeric tag. For example the tag "SOCIAL".
• As soon as a tab is tagged, it moves automatically from its current window, to a window which itself is labelled "SOCIAL". (If that FF window doesn't already exist, it is created.)

This would save manually organising tabs by category. Instead, simply tagging the tab does the work. And - as often happens - if a tab is opened in a random window (by, say, a link in a webpage, a PDF, or an email) then it can quickly be re-tagged and sent to the correct window.

It is also worth noting that there's already an extension "Window Titler" which offers basic FF window-naming. Perhaps a modest modification to this would be the way forwards?