Can Firefox's “view source” be set to not make a new GET request?

Question

This is sort of tangential to coding, but programmers often do \"view source\" on their own pages and on others\' pages. I learned that when you do the normal View Source in

Answer 1

This is broken in Firefox for some time now:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307089

They aren't very responsive on their bug tracker, but your options are:

(1) complain at the bug tracker,
(2) fix it yourself it's open source software,
(3) find another browser.