Re: How to show the 'View source' screen of the browser

Ed Mullen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ralph Fox wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:26:13 +0200, in message
> <[email protected]>, Timothy Madden wrote:
> 
> 
>>I once was an web developer and hated IE for poping up a Notepad window when
>>I wanted to view the source of a page. After a while I found out that I
>>could set up any application as the "source viewer" for IE and suddenly I
>>remembered the excelent source viewer integrated in Netscape, Mozilla and
>>Firefox
>>
>>Please how can I start any of the browsers directly with the source view
>>window displayed ?
> 
> 
> 
> These seems to work here...
> 
> (1)  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"  view-source:"C:\TEMP\test page.html"
> (2)  "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"  view-source:http://foo.bar/test%20page.html
> 
> 

Neat!  However, on both FF 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7.3 here the source opens 
in a browser window/tab (depending on Tabbed Browsing settings).  I 
believe the OP wanted the page to open in the source viewer window. 
Cool to know anyhow!

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