This post is about how to enable the web page title display in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 windows title bar – as it was before with version 8.
Generally I like IE9. But removing the page title “<title>My Website Title</title>” in the windows title bar of IE9 is one of the greatest disadvantages ever in IE history. It leaves an useless empty space on top of the browser window.
But page titles are very important in the web: They are shown in search engines, define ranking, are some kind of headline for the visitors. With IE9 page titles are displayed in page tabs only, shorten in almost any cases. To see the title, I have to move the mouse to the tab, to display some kind of tooltip. Mhmmhmh….
Here is what to do, to get the page title back as it was with IE8:
1. Install this add on (you can hide it later on, no side effects ;-)
http://www.quero.at/index.php
2. Configure it to display the page title in IE9
3. Configure it to display no additional buttons. Then the (not useful) Quero toolbar disappears completely. But keep the add-on activated.
The web page title is displayed again in the windows title bar in IE9 as it was before with IE8.
How to display page title in IE9 windows title bar?
Next question: Why the IE9 back-button is cropped and how to repair? 
Thanks for the info! You’re completely right, what were they thinking? Wasted space!
Hi Frank,
no need to repair! I found out that it works like this: keep mousbutton pressed for a short while and steps of browsing history will appear and now may be chosen as before. – Would be great if you could send me a message, when you have found rhe registry hack for titlebar.
Best wishes
Andreas
PS: See, what “cestpasmafaute” has posted here
http://www.zehn.de/die-10-besten-tipps-fuer-internet-explorer-9-2992603-0
lol… the cropped back button thing was obiously a joke… nervermind.
Sehr geehrter Herr Daske,
mit Erstaunen sehe ich, dass Sie meine Mitteilung doch noch irgendwann veröffentlicht haben.
Ich möchte Sie bitten, meine beiden Einträge
April 13, 2011 at 6:22 am
und
April 13, 2011 at 9:22 am
UNVERZÜGLICH zu löschen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
A.B.
Sorry, you didn’t like my explanation about the back-button thing. Never mind, that’s just impolite. Won’t post here anymore.
I believe I followed these instructions exactly, but the title bar in IE9 is still blank after I installed this toolbar and configured it as shown on this page. Am I supposed to reboot my computer after this procedure, or just re-launch IE9?
@Brian: You have to set the “display title” option in the add-on. It’s not set by default.
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do you know how i open the quero properties again once it hides itself?
If you don’t mind the ‘classic look’; just put your theme to classic. It is the new theme style which disables the title. With the classic look, the title still displays properly. (Also on all other windows, so no need for aerobar etc…).
i have four computers in my home and thankfully i still have two with the older version of IE installled so i can check them to see what the page titles are. You can see page titles on a cellphone or smartphone as I do on my Blackberry Torch web browser, so i can check a web sites title any time on the fly. Hope this helps.