That's what I'm seeing for the title now, and I verified it with the HTML source.
When I posted that, however, I saw a very different behavior. I had one tab open, and it started with "The Omni...xxx". I opened another forum thread tab in the background, and saw it open with the same title. Then, almost immediate, both tabs' titles changed to "xxx", but when I clicked on them, the window title was still "Omni...xxx".
I just checked another site and verified that the behavior is still present. Try going to macnn.com and command-clicking a couple of the news stories. Pay attention to the titles before and after, and check the titles after as you click between the tabs. I saw the same thing at eBay by opening several of the listings in a category in background tabs. I didn't verify eBay just now, but I'd be surprised if it's changed.
Thinking back, I've for a long time noticed out of the corner of my eye a flickering around tabs' titles and--I would have sworn--titles changing. I never had time to sit down and really see what was happening, however, and my sub-brain sort of attributed it to sites playing games with JavaScript. Perhaps it was this feature all along. But again, it's apparently not 100% reliable since I regularly run into tabs with the title issue, including on this forum before it was changed. (Seeing the problem periodically is perhaps why I never associated the behavior I thought I was seeing with the feature.)
But for Omni to go and quietly change the forum at a time like this--man, that's dirty. Talk about making you think you're crazy :-).
When I posted that, however, I saw a very different behavior. I had one tab open, and it started with "The Omni...xxx". I opened another forum thread tab in the background, and saw it open with the same title. Then, almost immediate, both tabs' titles changed to "xxx", but when I clicked on them, the window title was still "Omni...xxx".
I just checked another site and verified that the behavior is still present. Try going to macnn.com and command-clicking a couple of the news stories. Pay attention to the titles before and after, and check the titles after as you click between the tabs. I saw the same thing at eBay by opening several of the listings in a category in background tabs. I didn't verify eBay just now, but I'd be surprised if it's changed.
Thinking back, I've for a long time noticed out of the corner of my eye a flickering around tabs' titles and--I would have sworn--titles changing. I never had time to sit down and really see what was happening, however, and my sub-brain sort of attributed it to sites playing games with JavaScript. Perhaps it was this feature all along. But again, it's apparently not 100% reliable since I regularly run into tabs with the title issue, including on this forum before it was changed. (Seeing the problem periodically is perhaps why I never associated the behavior I thought I was seeing with the feature.)
But for Omni to go and quietly change the forum at a time like this--man, that's dirty. Talk about making you think you're crazy :-).
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