Below there are some comments that amount to this extension being "inflexible" because it won't work on a global basis but only on individual tabs. The extension is called "Rename Tab Title" and that is exactly what it does. If it renamed every tab from a particular site to exactly the same tab title it would be of no value to me and would indeed be "inflexible". The whole point, surely, is to pinpoint a specific url by a chosen name.
It works just fine (does what it says on tin).

Agree with blake below. Lots of URIs change slightly on every logout/login to the service by changing GET parameters like ?sessionid= or path.

[HOTPATCH] The easiest way would be to only check that many characters that are stored in storage.js[/HOTPATCH]

[FIX] More advanced would be to include wildcards or regex[/FIX]

[FEATURE REQUEST] Another idea would be to sync with bookmark name if the URL is bookmarked! That would make it to a whole new level but that's probably far beyond the scope. [/FEATURE REQUEST]

Thanks for a good add-on anyway!

This is no longer working properly for me - the tab title disappears once the tab is closed. So my bookmarks revert to their original tab titles. Hope this can be fixed as it was really helpful before!

Works for me on Firefox 58.0.1 but icon in toolbar is almost invisible. It is very light gray on white background on my system. If I knew where to find the icon I might be able to edit it for more contrast.

Didn't work for my use case. :( The reason I wanted this extension is to make my Tumbr tab stay named "Tumblr" instead of changing to "(3) Tumblr" etc every time I had some unread posts. Sadly this doesn't seem to work: initially the "(3) Tumblr" did become "Tumblr" when I renamed it, but then a few minutes later it became "(2) Tumblr" again after some unread posts appeared. Could you please make the tab-renaming persistent even if the website tries to change the tab title?

Extension is working good but i do have a suggestion/Feature,
It should be able to handle domain names, currently it only renames individual tabs from a site.
e.g www.abc.com/xyz (renamed as) ----> AB
www.abc.com/qwerty (should also retain the name) ----> AB

Thanks & Cheers.

Does not work. I enter custom name, hit save, tab keeps old name, nothing happens.
Also if this will ever get to work it needs to be accessed from the tab context menu, not from a toolbar.

Using Windows 10 Pro v1703 and Firefox Developer Edition v58.0b11 (64-bit) the extension works as claimed. Not only did it remember the renamed tab between sessions, it remembered it after a computer reboot.

It's simple, but it does what it made for.

A good start, but a long way to go to truly make this extension useful. Need the ability to rename tabs based on rules (wildcards or complete URL's). Also, after renaming tab, it is not persistent.

Hopefully, I'll come back when the feature set is more mature like Tab Modifier (Chrome) or Tab Mix Plus was before the latest version of Firefox.

Appreciate the effort.

If you would allow wildcard searching for the URL this would be legendary! Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

Far too inflexible to be broadly useful: it filters based only on fully qualified URLs and has no support for Regular Expressions or wildcards of any sort. This means that it can only match per specific page, not per domain nor even sub-domain.

Example of what won't work: If a site uses text in its site-wide page titleing that causes problems, you cannot filter out the offending text for the title of every page on a site with just one rule; you would be forced to visit every page of the site and create separate rules for each one. If you like to save copies of Web page, as I do, and a site for instance uses the Unicode character "→" in place of a dash in page titles, you would want a single filter for the entire site - perhaps even the entire Web - to match that Unicode character and replace it with a "-" dash.

Nope, can't do that with this extension. The only way to accomplish that still is to use a filtering HTTP proxy like privoxy or Proxomitron, and those are mighty broad brushes for just filtering page titles and nothing else.

Addendum: Fast forward eight months from my review, and its developer has listened and agreed and added regular expression parsing. Unfortunately... that parsing is applied to the URL to be matched and not the title, which is necessary to solve the scenario that I described. The title of any matched URL can only be replaced in its entirety, not altered partially by regular expression.

Doesn't do anything. Hit save and the tab keeps it's old name.

I enter the new title text and click the "Save" button and nothing happens.

This is the best addon for this specific need. We use it a work with our GLPI filters. It's a charm and I can't imagine working without it. Keep up the good work!

I have a couple of suggestions.

1. I think you can make it truly persistent by making use of wild cards (*) in the URLs. Similar to those used in adblock and other addons. So for example letting the user set the URLs *.youtube.com/* to show the name 'YouTube' will make more sense to a lot of users.

2. A toolbar button is good, but for users like me with a lot of addons it's note very useful. At least an option to show the Rename function in the right-click tab context menu would be the best way. This also would help us rename the tabs that are not in focus. So not need to switch tabs for renaming.

Firefox 55.0.2 with various extensions, multiprocess enabled. Screen recording and other information available on request. Find me in irc://irc.mozilla.org/#firefox or (if you use Matrix) https://riot.im/app/#/room/#mozilla_#firefox:matrix.org – thanks.

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Rename Tab Title is one of my top ten extensions for Firefox 56.0.2 –

https://addons.mozilla.org/collections/grahamperrin/t10/

– less than five stars only because of the unresolved issue.

Thanks for producing this nice add-on!

I would like to be able to right-click on a tab and choose a selection: "Rename tab" which would then open the dialogue to enter a name.

I have been using a different tab renaming add-on for many years but it stopped working with FF 55. What I loved about that one was when you renamed a tab, it was permanent regardless of if you navigated to a different URL within that tab. Is there a way to make the new name stick as I'm clicking on various links within the tab (which right now will make the chosen name disappear)? For example, it's pretty useless to name a tab "YOUTUBE" but have it disappear every time you click on a new video. I want the tab name to remain "YOUTUBE" no matter what. Any chance of adding this feature?

It would also be nice to just right-click the tab to rename it as suggested by the review before mine. The old add-on I used had that.

First, I am using Firefox 54.0.1. I successfully installed the Rename Tab Title add-on. But when I go to Customize (to add the Rename Tab Title icon to the toolbar), the icon is not there. Removed and reinstalled the add-on. No change. So sure, a small slice of WTF.

Secondly, couldn't you not adjust (modify) your code, making it possible to right click on the tab and say Rename?

As title says. Fantastic for use with Tree Style Tabs, except that I can't name an empty tab. The current version can not rename the New Tab page.

Thank you for this extension! Would be especially useful with Tree Style Tabs to name empty parent tabs, but unfortunately New Tabs (and tabs displaying https://addons.mozilla.org sites) can't be renamed.

I've been looking for a tab name changing tool that works with Tab Tree. This one does. finally I have the tab management tools that I need for my work :-)

not retaining new tab name (I'm using Firefox 53 64bit)