Bug 16896

Summary: Gmail never updates tab titles after chat window closes (Loading... bug)
Product: WebKit Reporter: Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component: DOMAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED    
Severity: Normal CC: ahmad.saleem792, ampcoder, ap, aroben, bfulgham, cdumez, dev+webkit, ferraro.francesco, ismail, jbum, michaelmiller, peorth, rniwa, webkit
Priority: P2 Keywords: GoogleBug, HasReduction
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.gmail.com
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An example where FF and Safari differ none

Eric Seidel (no email)
Reported 2008-01-16 12:12:52 PST
Gmail never updates tab titles after chat window closes I think gmail is using: document.title = "" to update the tab title after a chat window closes. This is a NOOP in Safari, where as firefox resets the page to the default title. HTML5 does specify the title behavior, I'm not sure either FF or Safari agree with the spec: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-title0
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An example where FF and Safari differ (288 bytes, text/html)
2008-01-16 12:13 PST, Eric Seidel (no email) 		no flags
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Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 1 2008-01-16 12:13:12 PST
Created attachment 18480 [details] An example where FF and Safari differ
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2008-01-16 12:13:55 PST
See also: <http://ln.hixie.ch/?count=1&start=1161121410>.
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 3 2008-01-28 15:52:47 PST
This is by far the most annoying bug in my day-to-day Safari usage. :( Maybe that means I'll get to it this week. :) Mostly we just need a comprehensive test.
Jim Bumgardner
Comment 4 2008-02-12 13:56:38 PST
*** Bug 17330 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Jim Bumgardner
Comment 5 2008-02-12 13:58:21 PST
Note, there is a related symptom: When Gmail loads, the page title remains "Loading..." and doesn't reset to "Gmail - Inbox" as in other browsers.
Robert Blaut
Comment 6 2008-02-19 22:17:59 PST
*** Bug 17438 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Robert Blaut
Comment 7 2008-02-19 22:22:12 PST
Updated summary to avoid duplicates.
Eric Seidel (no email)
Comment 8 2008-02-22 11:44:11 PST
I swear... this bug is gonna drive me to use FireFox for gmail...
Robert Blaut
Comment 9 2008-02-28 03:31:02 PST
*** Bug 17588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Robert Blaut
Comment 10 2008-03-25 11:32:16 PDT
*** Bug 18073 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Robert Blaut
Comment 12 2008-03-29 05:53:04 PDT
*** Bug 18206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ahmad Saleem
Comment 13 2022-08-11 10:04:04 PDT
Safari Technical Preview 150 pass all tests related to "document.title", is something else required here: https://wpt.fyi/results/html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&view=subtest&q=document%20title From the attached test case, all browsers load (Chrome Canary 106, Firefox Nightly 105 and Safari 15.6 on macOS 12.5) - URL as title. Since all browsers are matching and I am not able to reproduce this bug also WPT has coverage around these test cases and Safari pass all of them. I am marking this as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED". Thanks! Even the test case in Comment 11 has same output across all browsers and same DOM View.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 14 2022-08-19 18:27:22 PDT
WPT wouldn't catch a Safari UI issue, so that's not a great confirmation. However, we haven't received reports of this any time recently, so this must have been fixed indeed.
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