Discussion on Google Reader title unread count | Userscripts.org

fix to update title at initial load, replied by vith

vith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:18:09 +0000

I modified the script a little to also change the title when you first open GReader. Seems to work as expected now.

function mangle_greader_title(prop, oldval, newval) {
   if (matches = newval.match(/Google Reader \((\d+\+?)\)/)) {
      newval = "(" + matches[1] + ") Google Reader";
   }
   return (newval);
}

document.title = mangle_greader_title(null, null, document.title);

unsafeWindow.document.watch('title', mangle_greader_title);

Archived Comments, replied by Mathias Bertelsen

Mathias Bertelsen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:02:08 +0000

I have Firefox 3.0.3 and greasemonkey 0.8.20080608.0 installed, and it still works fine? It does not depend on the code of Google Reader anymore, as it just changes the title that firefox has for the page, so it should work regardless of code changes at Reader.

Archived Comments, replied by Lalo Martins

Lalo Martins — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:53:14 +0000

This script has ceased to work. I don't know if it's because I upgraded to Firefox 3b and Greasemonkey 0.8 preview, or because Google Reader changed their code, but it isn't working anymore :-( I really miss it, it's one of the scripts I find most essential.

Archived Comments, replied by Mathias Bertelsen

Mathias Bertelsen — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:48:29 +0000

So, I've updated the script again.

This time it doesn't use any of the function names of the Google Reader application, so it should not need to be updated if Google changes anything again.

It just sets a watch on the document title and changes it appropriately every time it is updated. Much better! :)

Archived Comments, replied by Mathias Bertelsen

Mathias Bertelsen — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:44:30 +0000

I updated the script since the function names of the Google Reader seemed to be rotated somehow (the function which was named "eg" before is now named "fg", and "se" is named "te").
I don't know if this is some kind of regular rotation of the names of the obfuscated functions, done by Google or what, but if they change again, I guess I better investigate some more... :)

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews

Jesse Andrews — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 01:06:06 +0000

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