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Firefox refreshes page when viewing source


Adam

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One of the minor things I always liked about Firefox over Chrome is that it didn't require you to refresh the page in order to view the source. In a recent release though, I think 8.0, they've changed it so now you do. Can be quite annoying, for example when you're debugging issues that only allow one submission. Is there any way to disable it?

True, but when reading through long exception object dumps and such it's a bit clunky. Plus you loose it on the next page load, which isn't handy to refer back to.  I just want a plain text pop-up.

 

@cs.punk - I've had it about a week, maybe more?

Hmm perhaps should be a bit clearer; by refresh the page, I mean when you view the source it sends a repeat request to get the source, instead of just showing it you. If it's a POST request, a pop-up within the source window will confirm you want to re-submit the data.

 

It's not a huge problem, minor annoyance I would like to disable if I can. Checked the settings and I can't find anything that sounds like it's related, and nothing in about:config as far as I can tell.

I do most my dev work in chrome and since they have always had that view source reload problem I got used to using Fiddler2 when I need to debug things like that.  Using it you can just find whichever request your interested in and then view it's data.  Works well when dealing with xhr requests and such too.

 

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