From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011015 BuildID: 2001101516 Mozilla should adopt the Mac OS-standard convention of identifying application windows by displaying a small version of the application icon on the Title Bar rather than the text, "Mozilla". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Spawn a Navigator window. Actual Results: The text, "Mozilla", is appended to the Document TITLE on the Title Bar. Expected Results: The text, "Mozilla", should not have been displayed; rather, a small version of the Mozilla application icon should have been displayed to the left of the Document TITLE. This is an ancestor to Bug 36305 which requests that the title bar icon be functional in some ways. This bug merely requests the display of the icon. Note that IE, for example, displays the icon on both OS 9 and OS X versions. The icon only provides functionality, however, on OS 9. The OS X icon is merely an identifier, which is what's being requested by this bug.

See also Bug 107692 about relocating the Build ID from the Title Bar to the Status Bar.

I suggest an implementation that abstracts the window/application identification process. There would be a function to assemble the Title Bar text, which would then call a labelling function that either appends the text, "Mozilla," or prepends the application icon as appropriate.

The title bar icon in MSIE for OS X is not the icon of the application, but (like all other Mac apps I've seen which have title bar icons, with the exception of ICQ) the icon of the document. That it does not function as a proxy icon almost certainly a bug, and even if not, not a behavior that should be emulated in Mozilla -- making a proxy icon unusable in one application would pollute its usability for all others, by making users persistently wonder if particular proxy icons were functional. So that part of this bug is really a duplicate of bug 36305. The other part -- removing the application name from the window title -- is bug 56995. Tossing a coin ... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56995 ***

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