# FireFox View Source Annoyance

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/123909>\
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**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/123909 "2004-09-28T12:55:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/123909/1 "2004-09-28T12:55:59Z")

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GAH! 😱 I HATE that Firefox automatically closes what it thinks are html tags when you view source. That screwed a good hour out of my life :bored:

Example, save an html page with:

\<test\<br\>

Open in FF, view source. What do you see?

\<test\>\<br\>

HELLO! Thats _ **NOT** _ the correct source of that file. Sure, you may wish it was… but its not. How about… don’t do that?

I went to the FF forums but when I searched I kept getting over 100 posts for my terms and on top of that Im using ver 9 (not 1.0 PR) so it may not exist in the final version… can anyone check up on that for me?