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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #255524
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 255524

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In , Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008090211 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008090211 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.1

When viewing a part of the source code of a web page, i.e. Source of Selection, every '&' character (wheter in an url or otherwise) is replaced with it's html entity code, '&'.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attached html-file.
2. Select the link
3. Right Click and choose source of selection
Actual Results:
<a href="http://example.com?param=1&amp;etc">Link text with &amp; char</a>

Expected Results:
<a href="http://example.com?param=1&etc">Link text with & char</a>

This bug was reported on Launchpad:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/255524