Useful page titles are absolutely crucial to tabbed browsing. For example, all the page titles here start with the string "Hacker News | ", which is completely redundant given the favicon, and could just as well go at the end of the title. As things stand now, my tabs seldom show more than the first three or four characters of the actual article title.
Safari also uses some pretty clever tricks when abbreviating to preserve as much information as possible -- it uses interior ellipses sometimes instead of trailing ones, and I think it has a blacklist of low-content words to strip out first.
Firefox history shows only page titles and I am always glad for the "Hacker News |". Though I wouldn't mind it being shortened to "HN|". But then again, page titles are prominently picked up by google and the ilk, so I suppose that will have to factor into the decision somewhere.
Not true, it shows favicons too in the default which makes the HN bit superfluous IMO. Also if you want listings by domain then choose the "date and site" view. Simples.
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Useful page titles are absolutely crucial to tabbed browsing. For example, all the page titles here start with the string "Hacker News | ", which is completely redundant given the favicon, and could just as well go at the end of the title. As things stand now, my tabs seldom show more than the first three or four characters of the actual article title.
Safari doesn’t display favicons on tabs. (Edit: It’s true! It really doesn’t!)
It also strips out common prefixes among tab titles that would cause the tab title to become abbreviated. It's pretty clever, I think.
Safari also uses some pretty clever tricks when abbreviating to preserve as much information as possible -- it uses interior ellipses sometimes instead of trailing ones, and I think it has a blacklist of low-content words to strip out first.
Firefox history shows only page titles and I am always glad for the "Hacker News |". Though I wouldn't mind it being shortened to "HN|". But then again, page titles are prominently picked up by google and the ilk, so I suppose that will have to factor into the decision somewhere.
Not true, it shows favicons too in the default which makes the HN bit superfluous IMO. Also if you want listings by domain then choose the "date and site" view. Simples.