Comments on: How To View Page Source without Reposting in Firefox

By: sw

sw — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:24 +0000

Why are you using an old version of FireFox? I’m on 3.5.4 here. If I want to view the source I right click anywhere on the page and select ‘view page source’ and it pops up in its own little window. Don’t you have that option?

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:17:45 +0000

not sure - i thought my versions upgraded themselves. It might be held back from newer versions cos of the add-ons i have installed.

Yeah i do use the right-click view source thing for GETed pages. But if i want to view source of a POSTed page Firefox wants to do a reload. If the page varies between iterations of the POST REQUESTs it can be more difficult to see the real original source.

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By: John S

John S — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:48:59 +0000

I’m disappointed because even Internet Explorer does it without resending the request.

Suppose I did a credit card payment and then request the page source with Firefox, then I am paying twice. Firefox does not warn me against this.

By: John S

John S — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:13:14 +0000

Oops. Mistake. Firefox does warn me.

But still a clumsy way to need to install firebug first.