User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; SU 3.1; QS 4.2.2.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Check this script: <script language="javascript"> x = "$$john"; y = "~1"; result = "~1 hello"; result = result.replace(y, x); alert(result); </script> in the output I loose one '$' sign.It works fine in IE.. IE Output: $$john hello Mozilla Output: $john hello Can you please inform me by mail(java.deepak@gmail.com) what is the issue? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Run the script given in details Actual Results: IE Output: $$john hello Mozilla Output: $john hello Expected Results: $$john hello

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/String/replace#Specifying_a_string_as_a_parameter http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm (15.5.4.11) -> Invalid

This might nonetheless get fixed in bug 432525.

No, we're not going to break our spec compliance in that bug, just improve the speed of what we do with flat-string replaces.

Is there any way to escape this special pattern and replace a '$$' like value in an input string please? To support cross browser gets really tough at times. Since you guys already closed this can u please let me know by mail...i mean if you have some time to reply.