The Greasemonkey Firefox addon would enable you to do that. Greasemonkey lets you run “UserScripts” to be run on the page source, in order to modify it.1
1:Further details can be found at the Greasemonkey homepage, the corresponding Wikipedia page, and a collection of scripts at GreasyFork.
The userscript you’d need would be pretty simple, just running a regular expression replace on the page’s
title = title.replace('^(.*)\s*- .+$','\1')
would cut off everything after a dash (including the dash and potential leading whitespaces). How to dynamically change a web page’s title? could serve as a starting point here. Or, to make it easier for you, just use this:
// ==UserScript==
// @name TitleStrip
// @namespace IzzySoft
// @description Strips trailing site name from page title
// @include *
// @version 1
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
document.title = document.title.replace(/^(.*)\s*- .+$/,'$1')
Note that you might need to define some exceptions in case some sites uses titles that contain dashes. Picking up your example:
Apple - a fruit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I found no corresponding place to check it against; as my above script uses a “greedy wildcard”, it should work as you want it, but I could not verify that.
