1536549 - view-source does not update in sync with the actual source

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect, P3)

Description

[Hans Krutzer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

Load a page, view source, reload it, view source again

Actual results:

view-source shows outdated HTML

Expected results:

view-source shows the updated HTML

Comment 1

[Hans Krutzer]

Attachment: Screen recording

Comment 2

[Jason Laster [:jlast]]

Hi, can you provide a smaller example and some simple steps to reproduce?

Comment 3

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

I was able to reproduce the issue (Win 10):

STR:

1. Load a page (use local web server, so you have a chance to modify the page source)
2. Right click on the page and pick 'View Page Source' from the context menu
3. Modify the source of the page
4. Reload the page (F5)
5. Right click on the page and pick 'View Page Source' again. Look for the modification, it isn't there -> BUG

ER:
The View Source in step #5 should show the modification made in the page source.

Honza

Comment 4

[Markus Keller]

(In reply to Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me) from comment #3)

1. Load a page (use local web server, so you have a chance to modify the page source)

You can also use any public server that allows you to modify the contents of a page, e.g. https://gist.github.com
Only refreshing the view-source: tab shows the new content.

Related, but not exactly the same scenario as bug 1318234.