From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows; U; AIIEEEE!; Win98; Windows 98; en-US; Gecko masquerading as IE; should it matter?; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050217 Description of problem: All soft hyphens are totally ignored by Mozilla. Normally the ­ character is treated as a soft hyphen and can be used to cause long words to be split across lines (in a table, for example). Other browsers like IE seem to adhere more strictly to the HTML standards. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create some html with soft hyphens 2.Stumped? 3.Ok, here is a silly example. <table width="5"> <tr> <td> Averylongwordxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx </td> </tr> </table> View this with Mozilla and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Actual Results: Mozilla will not hyphenate the word. Microsoft Internet Explorer will hyphenate the word. Expected Results: Mozilla should recognise soft hyphens Additional info:
Tracked upstream at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9101