Ebay Title Adjust

By * Last update Jun 14, 2009 — Installed 265 times.


Script Summary: shortens the title of the ebay search results pages

This should leave the title with merely the search keywords that you have entered.

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For best results you might need to additionally install an add-on that adjusts the tab width to the size of the title. These following add-ons are suitable for that task. But there should be more.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/7863
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1122

The original search keywords you have entered are extracted from the search request's URL.
As the whole ebay thing (including its search) is quite obscure, confusing, and complex, this script may not cover all the cases.
If it failed on some search, then you might help to improve this script by posting the url on which it went wrong (and maybe the results you've expected along with the actual results it produced)

14.6.2009: minor improvements