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.

[deathgrips]

Allow users to personalize window titles

The container tabs feature is quite useful, but when there are too many tabs in one window, it becomes messy and overcrowded, even though the tab labels are different. Not to mention, the choices are limited to only four: personal, work, banking, and shopping. Instead of using labels for tabs, I believe it would be more efficient to differentiate certain topics into different windows, which could be done by allowing users to rename the windows titles.

[Jon]

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

[NekoiNemo]

Lack of this feature is what is stopping me from using Firefox. On Chrome i organised my windows into i3wm's tabbed view having assigned them short names like this:

(Which, on top of convenience, also helps with privacy by not showing the titles of tabs in windows that arent currently active).

With Firefox only allowing to set prefix (unlike chrome which allows complete overwrite, including the application name suffix!), i can at most go from window being named

"This is a very long tab name that a lot of sites have, especially if it's an article, and then they will likely will also end with the name of - The Whatever Site - Mozilla Firefox"

to

"[custom tag] This is a very long tab name that a lot of sites have, especially if it's an article, and then they will likely will also end with the name of - The Whatever Site - Mozilla Firefox"

Which doesn't help in the slightest and only makes the title longer and less readable

[mozilla-fan]

This would be a lovely feature to have implemented natively in Firefox. Not sure if anyone has commented about the extension "Window Titler", but I've experienced success in using this extension to add a prefix to window titles e.g., "[Uni Course]", short for a window meant for things related to the university courses I'm taking.

[lionelw]

I am the author of a window manager add-on Winger - it lets you name windows and move tabs between windows, among many other features. For those who are asking for these things, Winger can be exactly what you need.

That said, I am absolutely voting for native window naming/titling/labeling, along with a web extension API for it too. You see, no matter what window naming add-on you use, the names remain private to the add-on only. I can point out a few consequences of this:

1. Firefox View -> Open tabs can't show window names, just Window 1, Window 2, etc.
2. If you wanted to switch to a different window naming add-on, you'd have to name your windows all over again! It's rare for these add-ons to be designed with migrating names to or from the competition in mind. (Winger is the one exception I know 😀)

Native window naming would obviously centralize window names - add-ons don't have to override or negotiate with each other anymore.

Firefox could go the tab discard route and just provide the API, and let the add-on community come up with possible management GUIs.