257065 - View Source after 'view (background) image' yields rubbish

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 206176

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[MORA]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.3 (MOOX M2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040811 Firefox/0.9.3 (MOOX M2)

If an image is viewed in a separate window, using the 'view image' or 'view
background image' options, the view source window will contain binary data of
the image (i.e. rubbish). Although this situation probably will almost never
occur in practice, it may still be a good idea to disable View Source for this
particular situation, or to show only the image URL instead.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to bugzilla.mozilla.org
2. Right-click the ant image, and select View Image from the context-menu
3. Use View Source in the newly opened tab

Actual Results:  
View Source window shows binary code

Expected Results:  
View Source window should show something sensible, such as the URL to the image,
or it should be disabled altogether for this situation.

Comment 1

[rbs]

The Seamonkey UI doesn't have this problem. Viewsource is simply disabled there.
This bug is specific to the UI of Firefox.

Comment 2

[Daniel B.]

Note bug 288462.

Comment 3

[Ginn Chen]

Just open a gif or png file in firefox,
right-click a blank area, click 'View Page Source'

You can see the source of the gif or png file.

I don't know whether this is a bug or a feature.

Comment 4

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 206176 ***