341443 - Extra dashes in comments messes up rendering

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 214476

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.3
Build Identifier: 

Doing a comment like <!----------------------NEW SECTION-----------------> will mess up the rendering of the page in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take any completed webpage 
2. Add in comments throughout the page like <!------------------section1---------------->
3.Check the display in Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Varied results, comments will be visible, CSS won't be applied to certain sections, sections that should display won't.

Expected Results:  
The contents of a comment (even extra dashes) should not affect the rendering of the page.

Comment 1

[Richard]

Attachment: Incorrectly displays second comment.

Comment 2

[Régis Caspar]

This depends of the number of "--" see Boris explanation on bug 224476

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 224476 ***

Comment 3

[Régis Caspar]

I meant bug 214476

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