The hostname is basically the root url of a website, for Ghacks it would be www.ghacks.net. Adding that information to the titlebar has two apparent benefits. Number one is related to phishing. Antiphishing measures have been implemented in many web browsers and security software programs which could lead to the assumption that “yet another” way of helping with the identification of phishing sites might be overkill.
Experienced users on the other hand know that no software or script will reach an accuracy of 100%. There will always be false positives and negatives meaning regular websites that are identified as phishing websites (although they are not) and phishing websites that are not identified as such. The latter is obviously more devastating for the user.
Adding the hostname to the titlebar gives the user the opportunity to quickly check if he is on the right website. This in addition to other indicators can aid the user tremendously. More tips can be found at our Phishing Explained article.
There is however another benefit for users who work with password managers like KeePass who make use of the title for identification purposes.
Hostname in Title Bar (via Technix Update) is an experimental Firefox add-on which means that you have to sign in to the Mozilla website before you are allowed to download and install it.
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I also like Locationbar²
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014
This works nicely with the date and time which I have in the right portion of all windows.
Please give feature to put entire URL in titlebar after page title
great help to low tech parents monitoring kid applications