Make Google Reader show the Item Entry Title in the Title Bar

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For some reason, I’ve always wanted this feature on Google Reader. The Google Reader page’s title is pretty static – it just says ‘Google Reader’ and shows the number of unread items. Suppose you’re reading a new entry on Google Reader, the title bar doesn’t reflect that item’s title.

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Installing this Greasemonkey script changes the title bar behaviour. Suppose you open a new item – the title of the entry can be immediately seen on the Title bar as well. Kinda useful when you’re on another tab, and want to see what you were reading from there.

Written by Shankar Ganesh

January 1st, 2009 at 10:57 am

Posted in web tools

Tagged with google reader, greasemonkey

6 Responses to 'Make Google Reader show the Item Entry Title in the Title Bar'

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Nice Script Thank you shankar

Karthikeyan

1 Jan 09 at 11:39 am
That’s great use of Greasmonkey. You are all right, it’s a headeache to be hitting back the browser to see what you were actually reading. Thanks for all the sleuthing work!

TonNet

5 Jan 09 at 4:07 am
Wow! very gud script.. thanks for sharing

Nicholas Pixobyte.com

15 Jan 09 at 10:41 am
Nice Script!
But it works only for ‘.com’ version of Google reader. In my case, its google.co.in.
So I have to change the “included pages” in grease monkey to suit my needs.
Anyway, nice find. Thank you, Shankar.

Arun Shivaram

2 Feb 09 at 9:37 pm
Nice one.
Yesterday I was thinking about such thing but I didn’t know that there’s a solution

Thanx

Best wishes,
Nabeel

Nabeel

19 Feb 09 at 10:33 am
Wow. The script is good and it worked perfectly.

Thanks man.Keep up the good work

Narendra.s.v

21 Feb 09 at 12:09 pm