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goldenmean
goldenmean

Reputation: 18996

Changing the Text in Internet Explorer (7.0) title bar and Tab

When i open some website, can i as a end-user make the Text printed in the IE title bar at top disappear(make it blank or change it to my own text). e.g. While typing this question my IE title bar says

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I want to make that blank without at my browser end by way of some IE settings/Windows settings/registry settings etc. Is it possible?

Also is it possible to make the text on IE windows Tab to go blank/customize the text in similar ways??

Just want to keep my SO browsing sessions at work, unnoticed as far as possible!!

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 3538

Answers (6)

GvS
GvS

Reputation: 52528

Press F11. This will make the titlebar go away. With my settings also the tabs disappear (autohide or something), so that solves everything for you.

As a side-effect the browser will fill your whole screen.

Upvotes: 2

waqasahmed
waqasahmed

Reputation: 3835

You cannot remove "Windows Internet Explorer" from the title bar of Internet Explorer except through the registry. There is no javascript that can do this.

Upvotes: -1

cablehead
cablehead

Reputation:

[DllImport("User32.dll")] public static extern Int32 SendMessage( IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, int wParam, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string lParam);

//Blank out SendMessage(IEFrameHwnd, 0x000C, 0, "");

Upvotes: 1

cablehead
cablehead

Reputation:

You can change the title to anything you want with SendMessage. I've done it many times, easily.

The tabs....not so sure.

Upvotes: 0

schonarth
schonarth

Reputation: 534

You can just switch to Firefox, install Greasemonkey and create a custom script that applies to each and every page, setting the page title to "" an empty string (or " " a one-space string if the first one doesn't work)

That won't remove the title bar text entirely (the browser is still identified), but the page identification both on the title bar and tab will be blank.

Upvotes: 0

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338316

KB176497 pretty much sums it up. (It boils down to: You can't, really.)

How would changing the title of the web page help in terms of "browsing unnoticed" when a simple look into the proxy log would reveal anything you did?

Upvotes: 1

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