392442 - Can't view source of images

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[JB]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 IE
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 IE

Since upgrading to FF2 I seem unable to view image source for GIFs of JPEGs (haven't tried all types). The keyboard shortcut doesn't work and the menu option is greyed out.
There is sometimes hidden data in image files and I would prefer not to have to save them and open in a text editor if I want to check.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Access gif file (local or web)
2.Try to view source
3.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Shown source on a new window

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

I was able to see what you're after by prepending view-source: before the url.
Example view-source:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Inkscape_logo_2.svg/128px-Inkscape_logo_2.svg.png

note: I am aware of the irony of viewing the source of a binary png file that is a conversion of a plaintext svg file

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This seems to be an intentional change, see bug 294383.

-> INVALID