When I hover over a link, Firefox adds the website in front of my link making it wrong.
I was checking compatibility of my website. So I opened http://www.sethermal.com. It looked fine until I hovered over a link. Firefox added the website and broke the link.
Example. I entered www.sethermal.com into the address bar. The site came up fine. I hover over "Site Map" link on my page. Link is http://www.sethermal.com/pages/site-map.html Before clicking the link I looked at the bottom and Firefox shows www.sethermal.com/\\www.sethermal.com\pages\site-map.html When I click the link obviously I get 404 Page Not Found
Why is this happening?
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Those links have a backslash instead of a forward slash. Firefox is not so forgiving as other browsers and treats a backslash as a valid character and thus prefixes the links with the URL of the page.
[1] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\index.html"> [2] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\service.html"> [3] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\about-us.html"> [4] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\contact-us.html"> [5] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\site-map.html"> [6] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\Application\application.html"> [7] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\IndustrialHeaters\industrial-heaters.html"> [8] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ComponentHeaters\component-heaters.html"> [9] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ProcessControls\process-controls.html"> [10] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\PackagedProducts\packaged-products.html"> [11] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\HeatExchangers\heat-exchangers.html"> [12] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ColdWeatherProducts\cold-weather-products.html"> [13] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\Sensors\sensors.html"> [14] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\resources\engineering-data.html"> [15] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\resources\industry-application.html"> [16] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\stsnews\sts-news.html"> [17] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\stsnews\hot-products.html">Read this answer in context 👍 1
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Those links have a backslash instead of a forward slash. Firefox is not so forgiving as other browsers and treats a backslash as a valid character and thus prefixes the links with the URL of the page.
[1] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\index.html"> [2] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\service.html"> [3] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\about-us.html"> [4] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\contact-us.html"> [5] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\site-map.html"> [6] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\Application\application.html"> [7] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\IndustrialHeaters\industrial-heaters.html"> [8] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ComponentHeaters\component-heaters.html"> [9] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ProcessControls\process-controls.html"> [10] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\PackagedProducts\packaged-products.html"> [11] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\HeatExchangers\heat-exchangers.html"> [12] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\ColdWeatherProducts\cold-weather-products.html"> [13] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\products\Sensors\sensors.html"> [14] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\resources\engineering-data.html"> [15] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\resources\industry-application.html"> [16] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\stsnews\sts-news.html"> [17] <a href="http:\\www.sethermal.com\pages\stsnews\hot-products.html">
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