I just discovered something in Firefox when it comes to ‘view source’ - perhaps everyone already knows about it but I thought I’d share it just in case.
It appears when you do View Source in Firefox an additional HTTP request is made to the server to pick up the file, whilst IE just displays the already rendered HTML. I came across this when dealing with a user validation page. The user clicks on a link in an email and comes into the webpage whereupon their account is made active and they get to set a password, if i did ‘View Source’ I kept seeing the message they’d see if they tried activating their account twice - what I as expected to see was the html for the change password form. In IE i saw the code for the form, not important just something to bear in mind!
September 15th, 2005 at 11:30 am
From what I can see it doesn’t *always* do that, though I’m not entirely positive of that either. Time to read the source to see why
September 15th, 2005 at 2:53 pm
check bugzilla. I’ve heard of this behavior, and I’ve seen it a bit but I’m not sure why it’s still in mozilla. it’s a real pain when you are trying to capture source of periodic problems (like bad ad-banner code) and the extra read gets good data, not the bad you were viewing. bah.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Yes, it drives me nuts!
As a wed designer I am thinking of dropping FF for Opera if it doesn’t get fixed. I view the source almost as much as I view pages.
The problem seems to have started at v2.0-2.1
Where’s my old v1.8 when you need it?