434344 - Cannot View Page Source from Right-Click Menu

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: View Source, defect)

Description

[Alex Hatton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

In any page, when I right-click and select "View Page Source" from the right-click menu, it does nothing. However, the "View Source" option from the View toolbar and the Ctrl+U hotkey both work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-Click.
2. Select "View Page Source" from the right-click menu.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Actual Results:  
Nothing. Literally, nothing.

Expected Results:  
Viewed the page source.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008051522 Minefield/3.0pre

This works fine for me. Have you tried:

- Firefox's safe-mode to exclude extension/theme problems
- a new profile
- a reinstall in a new empty folder? 

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Folder

Comment 2

[Alex Hatton]

Reinstalling Windows XP fixed it.