Firefox ignores option selected=“selected”

Question

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

Answer 1

This is my solution:

var select = document.getElementById('my_select');
for(var i=0; i < select.options.length; i++){
    select.options[i].selected = select.options[i].attributes.selected != undefined;
}

I just put that at the top of the page (with appropriate id set), and it works for me. Replacing the getElementById with a loop over all selects on the page, I leave as an exercise for the reader ;).