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Firefox Illegal Character JS Error
I encountered the following error in FireBug (FireFox) on jQuery’s ui.core.js that halts execution of the rest of my scripts:
illegal character

Illegal Character error in Firebug
The last time I encountered this problem, I renamed the file a few times and that fixed it. Yes, that makes no sense but as long as it was fixed, I just went about my merry self until it happened again today, and no amount of file renaming would fix it. So I did a little bit of investigation to figure out exactly why this happened.