Firefox 3.6.2 vs. Internet Explorer 8 - Solidus Bar

[ChrisGreaves]

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544|36507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The url above opens (as a Home Page) perfectly in IE8 but not in FF3.6.2.
This is not a critical issue, but I wonder if anyone with an above-rudimentary knowledge of URLs can work out why this should be so.

I had originally developed the url http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544|36507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; in Firefox to display two orbiting satellites with NASA's tracking system; there are the space station and STS-131 bopping along merrily.
in Firefox I save the current (2-satellite) page as my home page, but next time I open FF I get two tabs opened - the first tracking the space station, correctly, but the second tab attempting to load a URL "36507".
The solidus appears to be a URL-separator in FF.

Repeating the exercise in IE8, I save the page as my home page; close, reopen IE8, and IE8, God bless its cotton socks, opens a single tab tracking both satellites.

My best guess to date is that FF handles the solidus perfectly well - as is evident if the url is pasted into the address bar, but that the code that extracts the url from the "Home page" storage area inadvertently lops off anything after the solidus.
That is, it might be just a flaw in the code that obtains the Home page location.

(minutes later)
I experimented, changing the url to read variously
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544?s=36507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544,36507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544/36507" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
but it seems that NASA expects a solidus.
So if FF interprets a solidus as, say, and end-of-line character then it is essentially a conflict between NASA and FF?

[HansV]

Once I allow ny20.com and gstatic.com in Firefox 3.6.3 (I use the NoScript add-on), the page loads correctly and displays the same result as IE8...

[ChrisGreaves]

Once I allow ny20.com and gstatic.com in Firefox 3.6.3 (I use the NoScript add-on), the page loads correctly and displays the same result as IE8...

Hans, thanks for the this, and my apologies for a retarded acknowledgment.
I tried your suggestion the day you made it, but couldn't get it to work (so shelved it for a few days).
This morning, wading hip-deep through my mail backlog, I fired up the link in Firefox 3.6.3 and waddyaknow? Works PERFECTLY.
Thanks!

[HansV]

Thanks for posting back!