Zotero 7 paper title, author, year missing from top of window

allieblanchette · 2025-09-29T15:16:59+00:00

The Zotero 7 update does not appear to list the title, lead author, or year of the currently open paper at the top of the viewing window anymore. For example, if you have many tabs of papers open and are reading the discussion of a paper and want a quick reminder of the author/year of the paper you are looking at, the older versions listed the paper's relevant info at the top of the viewing window (above the tabs) but v7 does not appear to do that anywhere (unless you toggle in all metadata as an additional column), making the updated user interface much less convenient to use. Am I missing something? Will there be an update to fix this?

adamsmith · 2025-09-29T15:36:58+00:00

That's a setting in the General tab of the Zotero preferences (Screenshot from Zotero 8 beta, but I don't think that has changed)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2433/affa2h2v7z4fa8qvs0jy.png

dstillman · 2025-09-29T15:41:22+00:00

I think this is referring to there not being a separate title bar on Windows anymore (bringing the design in line with most modern apps). But yes, the title is shown in the tab, and you can hover over the tab to see the full tab title, which is configurable as @adamsmith says.

allieblanchette · 2025-09-29T15:59:02+00:00

Yes my concern is that the author/year/title are missing from the top of the viewing window ABOVE the tabs. The tabs get so condensed that having the title there is somewhat useless, and having the full citation written out at the top was very helpful. Here is an example of v6. The hovering feature for v7 makes this a bit better, but still not as effective. Will there be any updates to v7 for restore this aspect of the interface?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u5863627/4qbfianjk1tv4ztvjb9l.png

adamsmith · 2025-09-29T16:06:16+00:00

Sorry, yes, I missed that.
No, not coming back, see dstillman above -- that space just doesn't exist in Zotero anymore (as it doesn't in most other apps on Windows)

dstillman · 2025-09-29T16:08:46+00:00

Some apps do have options to restore a title bar in some situations — e.g., in Firefox, you can turn on a title bar explicitly, and in Chrome, you can switch to vertical tabs, which also restores a title bar by default. We could consider options like those if there was sufficient demand, but those aren't the default layouts in those other apps, so the vast majority of people wouldn't be using those and would just have the title in the current tab as in Zotero 7.