318411 - FireFox 1.5 displays raw JavaScript code instead of executing it

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Howard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When rendering the page at the URL specified above, FireFox 1.5 shows raw JavaScript code instead of actually running the code. The JavaScript code in question works correctly in other browsers, with no JavaScript errors.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the specified URL with either FireFox 1.0.7, Opera 8.5, Safari on Mac, or IE 6 on Windows. The page renders fine, and displays search results for the search term "test".
2. Go to the specified URL with FireFox 1.5. Raw JavaScript is displayed instead.

Actual Results:  
Raw JavaScript is rendered on the page

Expected Results:  
The JavaScript code should be executed instead of displayed

Reproduced on two machines, one running Windows XP with SP2, one running Windows 2000. Have not tried with FireFox 1.5 on other OSes yet.

Comment 1

[Brian Polidoro]

When I select some of the page including where the problem is and view the source of the selection I see this in the source:
<!-->

That's what seems to be causing the problem.  I don't see that when viewing the source of the whole page.  So I guess that it is being generated by javascript.  The way comments are parsed has been changed in version 1.5.    

[quote]
In SGML, "--" starts a comment and "--" ends a comment.  HTML just uses SGML
comments, with "<!" signalling the starts of SGML markup and ">" signalling its
end.
[/quote]
from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214476#c4

So I think <!--> is now considered a comment which is opened and immediately closed.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214476 ***