Treestyletab: [feature request] TST sidebar/window title

Created on 3 Oct 2020 · 3Comments · Source: piroor/treestyletab

Description

This feature request is in relation to https://github.com/Lej77/tree-style-tab-in-separate-window/issues/9

I try to summarize this post: https://github.com/Lej77/tree-style-tab-in-separate-window/issues/9#issuecomment-702959783

The linked extension breaks out the TST view into a separate window. Currently this window is titled "Mozilla Firefox" instead of something specific to TST (to distinguish it from a regular FF window). This can be set by titlePreface, but if set by multiple extensions, they conflict.

The author of that extension, @Lej77, suggested another solution: Let the sidebar title be changed by something like this: ext+treestyletab:tabbar?windowId=3&title=Sidebar. However, this would require TST support.

I quote the last paragraph of the above linked post for a more detailed description:

Another approach would be to change the sidebar tab's title. I don't think it is possible to inject javascript into extension pages so this would probably require that a tiny bit of code is added to Tree Style Tab. This shouldn't be a problem however since code to support this extension has been added before. Currently this extension opens the Tree Style Tab's sidebar page by opening the URL ext+treestyletab:tabbar?windowId=3, I'm thinking that we could just open the URL ext+treestyletab:tabbar?windowId=3&title=Sidebar instead and then Tree Style Tab would read the URL and set the title. I can't think of any disadvantages for this second approach so it is the one I would prefer to implement.

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@piroor Thanks! I have released version 5.2 of my Tree Style Tab in Separate Window extension with support for the new URL parameter. I tested it with a development build of Tree Style Tab and everything seems to work!