Firefox ignores option selected=“selected”

Question

If you change a dropdown and refresh the page, Firefox seems to ignore the selected attribute.

Answer 1

It's just Firefox remembering your previous selection when refreshing. Try a hard refresh instead.

Also, same issue over here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1505693/1069232

Also see here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274795