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What happened to my View Source menu item?

I-Firefox
heleng replied
Squay
Squay

I'm pretty sure that I used to be able to view the coded contents of web pages in the past. I just tried to do this with a web page and my "View Source" selection item under the "View" menu is gone.

Am I mistaken that Firefox used to have this feature? I have used Firefox, exclusively, for about the last 3 to 4 years, now; haven't used IE in quite a while.

Maybe with my latest FF upgrade, that feature was deleted in the upgrade.

I'm pretty sure that I used to be able to view the coded contents of web pages in the past. I just tried to do this with a web page and my "View Source" selection item under the "View" menu is gone. Am I mistaken that Firefox used to have this feature? I have used Firefox, exclusively, for about the last 3 to 4 years, now; haven't used IE in quite a while. Maybe with my latest FF upgrade, that feature was deleted in the upgrade.

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SafeBrowser
SafeBrowser

Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

To get the View Page Source window:

  • right-click in a blank space on the web page and select "View Page Source"
  • CTRL+U
  • click Firefox button > Web Developer > View Page Source
    • if using Menu Bar instead of Firefox button, click Tools > Web Developer > Page Source


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Does not relate to your question, but...

You have multiple old Java Console extensions that Java did not clean-up during updates (see them in Add-ons > Extensions). You can manually remove them, if you do not do Java development work or debug Java applets on web pages:


Not related to your question, but...

You need to update some plug-ins:

Squay
Squay Umnikazi wombuzo

Thanks, SafeBrowser. All three solutions you provided worked.

heleng
heleng

Thanks. Glad to find more than ONE solution (I code "no right click" on most of the web pages I do). Tools / Web developer / Page Source works for me!