Fix URL query parsing in Firefox.

Closes bug 14686.

Author: samth

pkgs/scribble-pkgs/scribble-lib/scribble/scribble-common.js

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 // Page Parameters ------------------------------------------------------------
 
-var page_query_string =
-  (location.href.search(/\?([^#]+)(?:#|$)/) >= 0) && RegExp.$1;
+var page_query_string = location.search.substring(1);
 
 var page_args =
   ((function(){
@@ -32,13 +31,16 @@ function MergePageArgsIntoLink(a) {
 }
 
 function MergePageArgsIntoUrl(href) {
-  href.search(/^([^?#]*)(?:\?([^#]*))?(#.*)?$/);
-  if (RegExp.$2.length == 0) {
-    return RegExp.$1 + "?" + page_query_string + RegExp.$3;
-  } else {
+    var mtch = href.match(/^([^?#]*)(?:\?([^#]*))?(#.*)?$/);
+    if (mtch == undefined) { // I think this never happens
+        return "?" + page_query_string;
+    }
+    if (!mtch[2]) {
+        return mtch[1] + "?" + page_query_string + (mtch[3] || "");
+    }
     // need to merge here, precedence to arguments that exist in `a'
     var i, j;
-    var prefix = RegExp.$1, str = RegExp.$2, suffix = RegExp.$3;
+    var prefix = mtch[1], str = mtch[2] || "", suffix = mtch[3] || "";
     var args = str.split(/[&;]/);
     for (i=0; i<args.length; i++) {
       j = args[i].indexOf('=');
@@ -52,7 +54,6 @@ function MergePageArgsIntoUrl(href) {
       if (!exists) str += "&" + page_args[i][0] + "=" + page_args[i][1];
     }
     return prefix + "?" + str + suffix;
-  }
 }
 
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