Comment 62 for bug 350407

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James Hurley (hurleyjames) wrote :

Firefox Information: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.8

Web pages that have been saved locally are not displaying correctly. To see this problem run the following steps:

1). Go to the jwebunit website ( http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net/ ). Suggesting saving a page from this website as a test since this provided a very good example of the problem.

2). Right click on the main web page and select "Save As..."

3). Save the web page somewhere on the local drive. On Ubuntu there is an option in the save dialog specifying how to save the web page. Make sure that "Web page, complete" is selected.

4). Navigate to the location where the web page was stored and attempt to load the saved page back into firefox

At this point the web page that is loaded from the hard disk should display very differently than the real web page. Styles and elements of the original web page should be missing. I also tested this same process on Windows XP SP2 (using firefox 3.0.8) and I see the exact same behavior. This seems to eliminate the problem being caused by local browser settings (since I see the same thing under Windows and Linux on two separate machines with totally different preferences). Furthermore I was able to run steps 1 - 4 using Opera 9.64 and this produces a saved web page that displays identically to the web page navigated to on the internet.

...Additionally I just tried loading the webpage saved locally using opera and this loads into firefox correctly. So the problem appears to be with the actual web page save using firefox and not the fact that the page is saved locally.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 28 11:36:15 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-23-generic i686