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Odin2 · Post by **Odin2** » March 6th, 2017, 2:05 pm

I've occasionally seen the subject string inserted into the title of a tab, immediately following the icon. (This is a tab displaying the same page as a bookmark--and the string does not appear in the bookmark title.) I'm wondering if anyone can explain that.

lovemyfoxy · Post by **lovemyfoxy** » March 7th, 2017, 1:32 am

It's the title of the page, taken from the titlebar of the window.

MarkRH · Post by **MarkRH** » March 7th, 2017, 4:19 am

Probably something similar to the tab with Twitter on it changing to something like "(26) Twitter" when there are new tweets to look at. The web page has changed the title and so the tab reflects the change.

Odin2 · Post by **Odin2** » March 7th, 2017, 5:41 pm

Thanks, Mark. I'll be on the lookout for that next time I see the (*).

Odin2 · Post by **Odin2** » April 14th, 2017, 6:44 am

After over a month I'm encountering the same phenomenon--and the above comments don't explain (unless I'm missing something). The tab title for this very site suddenly starts with (*)--and in addition this time there's bullet following [before the name as assigned by me].

mightyglydd · Post by **mightyglydd** » April 14th, 2017, 7:00 am

1: Safe Mode ?
2: New test Profile ?

Odin2 wrote:Fx in safe mode displays the site in question with no problem. So it's likely the problem is caused by one of my multitudinous extensions, and your responses indicate that it's not Flash. Rather than spend time I don't have in tracking down the real culprit, I'll just use another browser to view this page.

Time to do some Spring Cleaning......

therube · Post by **therube** » April 14th, 2017, 9:01 am

Screenshot?
Where does this occur?
One typical meaning of an * is "dirty", meaning that the topic has changed since you last visited.

dfoulkes · Post by **dfoulkes** » April 14th, 2017, 9:25 am

I just went to another tab and the title is OK... started up my test profile and went to the same site... title is OK.... went to 'this' page and I got (*) -bullethole ... the mozillaZine. So, I supposen that Firefox is just trying to give the user at least a little info about the page? ... no buggy to me.

Odin2 · Post by **Odin2** » April 14th, 2017, 10:59 am

Firefox is just trying to give the user at least a little info about the page?

What info?

Post by **RobertJ** » April 14th, 2017, 11:16 am

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The (*) • shows up on the tab of this page. Note that the HTML for this page includes

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<title>(*) &bull; mozillaZine Forums </title>

So as LoveMyFoxy noted, it is the title of the page as programed into the page HTML.

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kreemoweet · Post by **kreemoweet** » April 14th, 2017, 10:22 pm

Odin2 wrote:--and the string does not appear in the bookmark title.) I'm wondering if anyone can explain that.

The page title is the default name of bookmarks in all the browers I've used - but the bookmark name is editable, so one supposes that if a bookmark name is different than
the tab/window title, then the bookmark name must have been edited at some point. Page titles are frequently unsuitable for use as bookmark names as they are
often excessively verbose, read like adverts, etc.

dickvl · Post by **dickvl** » April 17th, 2017, 9:06 pm

Sometimes a website modifies its title via JavaScript if the page gets updated via XHR to make it possible for a browser to detect that the page has been updated (i.e. the tab gets unread status in such a case) and the URL stays the same, so the page still shows as bookmarked (highlighted star).

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