Ability to turn off dynamic title
On new message, the tab title will now change to "NUM new message". It would be nice to have an option to disable it.


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Jim Greene commented
As @Matt has said,
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I have noticed that every visitor to our site get the 'New Message' browser tab notification after a few minutes. It would be great to have an option to disable browser tab notifications for trigger messages so the only people that get the browser tab notification are the guests currently engaged in an active chat with the agent.
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I have this problem too. But I'd like it to be more customizable than that. For each trigger, I would like the option to disable Title modification. This matters especially, when a welcome message and a prechat form are used. In this case, the only way the visitor can get rid of the flashing title is to fill out the form. We really don't want that.
I am going to create a new feature request around this problem called "Disable dynamic title for each trigger". -
Katrina Sparks commented
hi, i agree
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Katrina Sparks commented
I agree
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Marcel Zúbrik commented
Still an issue. Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to Widget settings,
2. Disable browser tab notification,
3. On your website, focus on tawk chat window,
4. Focus back to your page,
5. Title changes. -
Diogo Correia commented
Even with this off, the widget will still change it to the original title. It breaks SPAs because the title changes after rerouting. When I go to another tab and then go back to the website, it sets the title to the first title of the page, not the one it was when I left it.
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Jon commented
In the Widget settings.
Tick, Disable browser tab notification
This will then stop the Webpage Title changing to "1 new message" and retain the correct page tiitle for SEO. -
Anonymous commented
That can be disabled. Go to Admin > Widget Settings > Disable browser tab notification > Save
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Matt commented
I have noticed that every visitor to our site get the 'New Message' browser tab notification after a few minutes. It would be great to have an option to disable browser tab notifications for trigger messages so the only people that get the browser tab notification are the guests currently engaged in an active chat with the agent.
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Anonimowy commented
I don't know if devs at tawk really gets it so I will explain - to reproduce the bug you just need to:
- enter to some SPA site (with "page-title-1")
- navigate to some page with dynamic title change (lets say to "page-title-2")
- focus on tawk chat window
- back to focus on the website
- tawk changes the title to "page-title-1" instead of leaving "page-title-2" as it should -
MB commented
Anyone knows some workaround? An customer told me about this and I turned off chat immediately...
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Scott Ramsey commented
This feature is essential... I've just spent 3 days trying to debug an angular app where this exact issue was happening.
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Anonimowy commented
Any update on this?
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Anonymous commented
This "num of new message" even shows up when no agents are online and the widget are not showing...
"Disable browser tab notification" - this setting seems to this freak show... sadly there is no real description to the setting... So... not sure if it disable something usefull..
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Anonimowy commented
I agree... I had to turn off tawk on my website because of that.
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Anonymous commented
I have a single page app with dynamic title changes and tawk is constantly changing the title to some old one (probably from initial page load). It's really terrible and frankly this is a problem that causes tawk to be totally useless on SPA sites... :(
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Kalash Cards commented
This is the disaster for my local store SEO. All my efforts are destroyed. I have removed tawk services from WordPress site completely due to this...after getting the significant loss :(
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Peter Fisher commented
For anyone still looking in to this, I think I have found a new setting in Widget Settings: Disable browser tab notification.
Which, I think, since turning on, has stopped the 1 new message title changes.
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Peter Fisher commented
When are we likely to get a response about this?
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William commented
Please be warned that Google indexed our webpages with altered Site Title! This is a SEO disaster! We are in the process of completely removing this service and I recommend anyone who cares about SEO to do the same.
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Mayur S commented
I Removed this chat function, and my site bounce rate is now back to normal; which is got suddenly increased by this feature