Firefox and Page Title Saving Revisited

by Danny Sullivan on September 15, 2005

in Computers, Firefox

Part of getting the new computer going was getting Firefox to save page
titles again. The full detailed method I explained before is
here. But since I didn’t have
WinZip installed yet on the machine, I tried this instead:

  • Copied browser.jar to old browser.jar to have backup
     
  • Renamed browser.jar to browser.zip
     
  • Extracted the file to C:\content
     
  • Changed the contentAreaUtils.js part as explained
    here
     
  • Explored browser.zip and dragged-and-dropped the changed file to the right place
     
  • Changed browser.zip back to browser.jar

Have fun with the steps above. Or, at your own risk, you can use my revised
browser.jar file. It works
with Firefox 1.0.6 and might do with other versions. I’ve compressed the file to
speed up downloading.

Postscript: A much easier solution now exists. See Extension For Getting Firefox To Save Pages Using Page Titles.

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