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Cannot read tab titles due to (***) prefix

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Scylla
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When lots of tabs are open (which is all the time here!) I can't see which tab belongs to which webpage because most of them begin with a 3-digit number in brackets, and that's almost all I can see.

With YouTube, that's recognisable so it doesn't matter, but with different pages of the same website I need to be able to read the title.

Can the numerical prefix be removed?

When lots of tabs are open (which is all the time here!) I can't see which tab belongs to which webpage because most of them begin with a 3-digit number in brackets, and that's almost all I can see. With YouTube, that's recognisable so it doesn't matter, but with different pages of the same website I need to be able to read the title. Can the numerical prefix be removed?
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On YouTube that is the number of Notifications you have when signed into YouTube. Those Notifications come from you submitting a comment about a video that you viewed and then someone commented (Replied) about your comment. The 728 number will decrease when you view each of those comments; I have no idea about how to clear them all at once, that is a question for YouTube support.

What is that RSPB in the tab name? Royal Society for Protection of Birds?? https://www.youtube.com/user/rspbvideo I imagine the same type of Notifications are used there, as it is part of YouTube; but I don't see the same image on a tab for one of their videos that I viewed as with the image that you posted.

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TyDraniu
TyDraniu
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That's one of your addons, there's no any prefix in clean Firefox.

the-edmeister
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On YouTube that is the number of Notifications you have when signed into YouTube. Those Notifications come from you submitting a comment about a video that you viewed and then someone commented (Replied) about your comment. The 728 number will decrease when you view each of those comments; I have no idea about how to clear them all at once, that is a question for YouTube support.

What is that RSPB in the tab name? Royal Society for Protection of Birds?? https://www.youtube.com/user/rspbvideo I imagine the same type of Notifications are used there, as it is part of YouTube; but I don't see the same image on a tab for one of their videos that I viewed as with the image that you posted.

Scylla
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Oh dear. I must have been more than half asleep.

Just for your info, Edmeister, RSPB is nothing to do with YouTube but a lot of my videos are embedded there in the Community.

I've only just installed the new Firefox, I had been using Waterfox due to fear of losing essential add-ons. It's going OK, except that I need to venture into dragon territory to sort out search result behaviour. That'll be a new question unless I can find it in FAQs.

I do apologise for wasting your time. Thank you for taking the trouble to investigate.