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How do I display Tools>Developer>Page Source without HTML Character Entities, such as < & and >

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I am using Firefox 8.0 on Windows XP. In earlier versions of Firefox, when I would display the page source, the page would be displayed in all its original characters, including < > & and so on (including the HTML reserved characters.)

Now when I display page source, the page source is displayed, but instead of displaying html tags,

for example, it will display <p> in the source instead. For a longer example, instead of displaying <p class="stuff">text to display

the source is rendered as <p class="stuff">text to display</p>

Is there a way to direct Firefox to display page source using all actual characters instead of using character entities?

I am using Firefox 8.0 on Windows XP. In earlier versions of Firefox, when I would display the page source, the page would be displayed in all its original characters, including < > & and so on (including the HTML reserved characters.) Now when I display page source, the page source is displayed, but instead of displaying html tags, <p> for example, it will display &lt;p&gt; in the source instead. For a longer example, instead of displaying <p class="stuff">text to display</p> the source is rendered as &lt;p class=&quot;stuff&quot;&gt;text to display&lt;/p&gt; Is there a way to direct Firefox to display page source using all actual characters instead of using character entities?

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mskw
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Clarification. The html tags render until it encounters this code:

Modified by mskw