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When I use RenameTab with a site that regularly updates its title, l ike Facebook, which included a number for unread notifications, if I just use the normal "Rename Tab" button, the title will change back at some point, before I'm done with that tab. So I use the "Lock TItle (beta)" button.

I've found this so useful that I've written a hotkey macro to change the tab title to the text selected on the page. That works great ... UNTIL ... If I accidentally use that hotkey to attempt to rename and lock the title of a tab that has already been locked, Chrome goes into a loop where it flips the tab title back and forth rapidly. That begins to consume a lot of CPU resources. If I notice it in time and can close the tab some other way, like in one of my tab managers, I'm usually OK, but if I don't notice and loop goes for a while, it can lock up Chrome to where the only solution is to kill Chrome -- which sometimes means losing a bit of unsaved work.

This is a painful bug. Yes, it can be avoided by a simple, "So don't do that", but accidents happen.

2021-0819 RenameTab was removed from Chrome sometime in the past 24 hours. I used it yesterday with no problems. Today it has been disabled by Chrome. When looking for an update, I can no longer find it in the Chrome Web Store.
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What is the real issue? Is it fixable?

perhaps due to the tab titles being dynamic?

It would be really nice to be able to have a shortcut (such as shift+enter) so that you use the lock instead of the rename so that it can be done without having to click the lock button.

Doesn't work at all for dynamically updated sites (i.e Facebook)

Limited success elsewhere, sometimes only works for one link or works sporadically (Gmail)