353779 - page source and selection source show & (ampersand) as &

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Roland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060921 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060921 Minefield/3.0a1

In the source view of a page (Version Minefield/3.0a1) the & (ampersand) is substituded by the html-entity & . The latest german FireFox-Version (1.5.0.7) shows this behaviour only in selection source.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.heise.de/
2. mark "Abo & Heft"
3. view selection source

Actual Results:  
the view shows: <a href="/abo/" class="navi_links">Abo &amp; Heft</a>

Expected Results:  
<a href="/abo/" class="navi_links">Abo & Heft</a>

OS: Windows XP Service Pack 2

Comment 1

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164906 ***

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

It's 1.5 that has the bug, not 3.0a - the source actually does use & ... (verified with MSIE)