New Tab / Blank page title

[Frugal]

If anyone else is discombobulated with the title of a new tab changing from "New Tab" to "Blank page" with 33.9.1 it can be set back to "New Tab" by setting

browser.newtab.url = about:blank

but only if you're okay with the page itself being blank, as opposed to showing the pm logo (which is what I'd have preferred).

As an aside I did notice that regardless of whatever browser.newtab.url is set to, the url about:newtab brings up a quickdial page with title "Quickdial", which I imagine isn't intended behaviour.

[Moonchild]

discombobulated with the title of a new tab changing from "New Tab" to "Blank page" with 33.9.1

Ah... that is an unintended side-effect of actually giving the logopage (default new tab page) a title as requested (for identification purposes in the task bar/task manager). I'll have to think about potential solutions to that, if any.

As an aside I did notice that regardless of whatever browser.newtab.url is set to, the url about:newtab brings up a quickdial page with title "Quickdial", which I imagine isn't intended behaviour.

It is absolutely intended. about:newtab is the internal URL for the quickdial page. If you explicitly call up that page with about:newtab, then that is the page that is expected, not anything else.

[back2themoon]

If anyone else is discombobulated with the title of a new tab changing from "New Tab" to "Blank page" with 33.9.1 it can be set back to "New Tab" by setting browser.newtab.url = about:blank

Not me, but I'll enter semantics mode: unless I'm mistaken, there is no "Tab Title". What each tab displays is the web page title (aka document title property). So, when you open about:blank then you simply have... a new tab. It has neither content nor title.

I am not sure however if you are talking about the 33.9.1 change in general or something else: the barely noticeable, split-second change from "New Tab" to "Blank page" which does occur when you open the default new tab page and I guess can be labeled as a minor visual glitch. Can't say if this is new, or just more noticeable now (even if barely).

[Moonchild]

It's about new tabs being called "New Tab" in the tab strip.

It used to say "New Tab" because the New Tab page did not have a set title.
Since it now has a set title, it will display that title ("Blank page") in the tab strip.

[seadragon]

I think a solution is let us manually set a New Tab / Blank page title (if anyone wants it)...?