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How to launch a browser in view source mode?

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In Chrome and Firefox you can use the view-source URI scheme by prefixing your URLs with view-source: as in the following example:

view-source:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2831226/

Daniel Vassallo 2010-05-14 01:02:55

I'm not sure if you can launch a browser and have it load that. I know you can load that once you are in the browser, but not by clicking a link?

webdestroya 2010-05-14 01:10:32

Thanks, Daniel. It worked well in Chrome (it opens the file in View source mode), it did not work in Firefox 3.5.9 nor in Internet Explorer 7.One follow up question: is there a way to jump to a line number, instead of just opening the file at the first line?

JorgeLarre 2010-05-14 01:23:02

@webdestroya: Yes it should work as a link as well. `<a href="view-source:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2831226/">Link</a>`

Daniel Vassallo 2010-05-14 01:39:22

@JorgeLarre: I think in Firefox for Windows it has been disabled, but you can enable it with [an extension](https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2070/). However, I do not think there is the capability to jump to a particular line number.

Daniel Vassallo 2010-05-14 01:41:16

@Daniel Vassallo - Oh cool, but that will only work in Chrome, not FF or IE

webdestroya 2010-05-14 01:41:35

@webdestroya: There's more info on the browser compatibility in the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-source_URI_scheme. It works on my Firefox 3.6.3 for Mac, but I think it has been disabled on Windows.

Daniel Vassallo 2010-05-14 01:43:11

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