[Feature Request] Shortcut: Edit Title of Tab

[davidleejy]

Anyone use the edit tab title (also known as rename tab) functionality often enough to wish that there were a shortcut for it?

Shortcut could possibly be parked under Sidebery Settings > Keybindings > Tabs

[JohnVKRDam]

Yeah, this has been requested before, amongst others, by me. See #966 - Keybinding to rename the title of a tab

And this one, right below your request: Keyboard Shortcut to Rename current tab #1845

I am convinced a LOT of people would really, REALLY appreciate having a keybinding for that.

[JohnVKRDam]

Looks like this extension has been abandoned... No activity on it for a long time now...

[davidleejy]

Looks like this extension has been abandoned... No activity on it for a long time now...

man.. that's a bummer if true.. edit tab title shortcut feels like a really sensible feature to have considering how a tab's title is one of the main signals the user would use to decide whether to switch to that tab, and as most browser users can attest, the automatically generated tab titles are frequently uninformative.

[JohnVKRDam]

man.. that's a bummer if true..

Yeah... 😞 I really hope I am wrong, but I have not seen any activity for so long now.... And looking at all the open issues, I'm not hopeful, to be honest...

edit tab title shortcut feels like a really sensible feature to have considering how a tab's title is one of the main signals the user would use to decide whether to switch to that tab, and as most browser users can attest, the automatically generated tab titles are frequently uninformative.

Absolutely. I rename tabs a million times a day, and I may not even be exaggerating 😅 I have around 5000 tabs open at all times, in different panels and meticulously grouped. F2 for rename would be a Godsend for me.

[davidleejy]

I have around 5000 tabs open at all times, in different panels and meticulously grouped. F2 for rename would be a Godsend for me.

I feel for you, I probably have 500+ tabs perpetually opened on my firefox browser in various windows.

Seeing how services and information sources are increasingly trending towards being situated on online platforms accessible via common internet browsers, it isn't unforeseeable that it'll become more common for people to have 100s of tabs permanently opened in their browsers, and then it's possibly going to be confusing when many of these tabs are poorly named.

FWIW, sidebery users can configure the right click menu to bring the edit title button closer to the cursor:

[adham-elaraby]

Ive gotten the shortcut to kinda work, there is still some things to fix though and im stuck,

basically it does what its supposed to but for some reason the mouse needs to click the sidebar or tab to select the text to be able to rename. right now its just turning on rename mode.

I've linked my fork, if anyone knows how to fix this.

https://github.com/adham-elaraby/sidebery/tree/rename-shortcut

[JohnVKRDam]

Seeing how services and information sources are increasingly trending towards being situated on online platforms accessible via common internet browsers, it isn't unforeseeable that it'll become more common for people to have 100s of tabs permanently opened in their browsers, and then it's possibly going to be confusing when many of these tabs are poorly named.

Sorry for the late reeply! Life got in the way of my online presence 😉
And yes, I agree with what you wrote entirely! 👍

And, in the meantime, I have managed to bring down my total number of open tabs to 3569. Some closed, some moved to Bookmarks.

I must say, Firefox does not in any way have any trouble with this many open tabs! And neither does SIDEBERY! It's pretty awesome, as something like this was entirely unimaginable not too long ago!
In fact, I would not even think of doing this in Chrome or Edge! Not in the least because they have nothing like SIDEBERY, but they would have become HUGE memory hogs, if not straight up crashed many times over before even ever reaching that amount of Tabs 🤣

Memory (and Tab) management has come a long way in Firefox! It is still BY FAR my favorite browser!

FWIW, sidebery users can configure the right click menu to bring the edit title button closer to the cursor:

Yes indeed, I have a highly customized variant of SIDEBERY with vertical tabs running (lots of custom CSS code, see image below), and I also modified the contents of the context menu to bring most used options closer to the top and organized into little groups. So extremely useful to have those features!!

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Unfortunately, It seem that this extension is still abandoned... No sign of the owner/coder.... Such as shame, as this could have been so good. If it really is abandoned (I really, REALLY don't hope so), it will probably die off at some point, as it will become incompatible with newer Firefox versions....

Ah well... such is Life, I guess 😟 I better start looking for an alternative, if there even is one that compares even a little bit....

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[JohnVKRDam]

I've linked my fork, if anyone knows how to fix this.

https://github.com/adham-elaraby/sidebery/tree/rename-shortcut

Thank you for the fork! It is appreciated, and I will have a look at it as soon as I can! I need to run it in my one of my virtual machines, as I have a LOT of customized CSS Code in my SIDEBERY installation. Can't take the risk of messing that up 😉 Haha!

I am not a Web/Browser coder, though. So, I will take a look at the code, but I don't think I can be of much help there. I have no experience coding Firefox extensions, and wouldn't even know where to begin looking currently 😉 But, if I happen to find anything useful, I will post it here 👍

Again, many thanks for trying to help out!! 👍👍

[ChilledMoth]

Ive gotten the shortcut to kinda work, there is still some things to fix though and im stuck,

basically it does what its supposed to but for some reason the mouse needs to click the sidebar or tab to select the text to be able to rename. right now its just turning on rename mode.

I've linked my fork, if anyone knows how to fix this.

https://github.com/adham-elaraby/sidebery/tree/rename-shortcut

Opening the text input field in the sidebar to edit the title of a tab on a global keystroke is one thing, shifting the input focus to the sidebar programmatically, however, is simply impossible for an extension due to API limitations (1502713).

For this reason a workaround in form of a new global popup was implemented for searching through tabs on a keystroke, despite there being an existing search input field in the sidebar.

[JohnVKRDam]

For this reason a workaround in form of a new global popup was implemented for searching through tabs on a keystroke, despite there being an existing search input field in the sidebar.

That's fair :) Thank you for your input!

I did some digging of my own, and indeed I stumbled on several (very recent) Mozilla Bug reports that ask for the same, as in "shifting focus to the side bar" and related articles. As I understand it, the Mozilla team actually IS convinced now that it is something that is needed & necessary, and that they are contemplating a solution. Lets hope they come through on that.

But, as far as I'm concerned, it isn't really a requirement to shift focus to the actual Tab in the side bar. Extensions such as Rename Tab Title work perfectly fine now, without directly accessing the Side Bar or top bar Firefox Tab Titles. It just shows a dialog, which can be activated by a shortcut key combination, to receive the required data.

What we would like to get is an easy way to rename tab titles, without having to use the mouse. That's basically it. How that happens is not really important (to the end user). And it must be possible to implement a solution, because other extensions do it as well ;-)

It could be as simple as, for instance:

• Press F2
• A popup shows with the current tab title
• Edit the title
• Press enter to save the changes

We can already use shortcuts to navigate the tabs in the side bar themselves. For instance, I have configured the key combinations Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Down to go down one Tab, Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Up to go up one Tab. And I have other shortcuts set up to make it easy for me to navigate my tabs.

So, it's not so much about the technical aspect of getting to directly edit the Tab Title in the side bar, as it is to provide a means (ANY means) to easily edit the Tab Title.

I hope you understand what I mean :)

[JohnVKRDam]

First, I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!!

While I am VERY HAPPY to see @mbnuqw is still working on this(!!!!), very happy indeed, I'm not sure I understand?

This request is now closed, but there is no new code available? Does that mean this will not get implemented after all?
I checked in Firefox, and I am still on v5.2.0 and no update is available.

[mbnuqw]

@JohnVKRDam, I implemented it in a6ac351, will be in the next nightly version of sidebery (tomorrow). Not sure about the date for the next stable version (v5.3.0), but probably this month.

Also, regarding this feature, there might be some issues (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1918031) with focus in popup. In these cases press Tab after the shortcut to focus on the popup.

[JohnVKRDam]

Aaah! Excellent! Thank you for that info! I really appreciate it, and will patiently await the release 👍

And yeah, unfortunately Firefox seems to have some issues with focus on certain objects/elements. Or rather, it was never implemented. A little while back I did find a Mozilla bug report where the Mozilla team said they were talking with the people reporting the issues, about implementing a sidebar/object/element focus() function and such things. Can't find the link right now, but if I run into it again, I will post it here.

[JohnVKRDam]

Tested it in my HyperV machine first, and it worked GREAT!! No issues so far with incorrect focus.
Moved it to my "production" machine, to start using it for real. Also, no issues so far with incorrect focus 👍

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I cannot tell you how happy I am with this seemingly unremarkable option 👍👍👍