Returning false from click handler doesn't work in Firefox

Question

In the example below, return false does not seem to prevent the default action after the link is clicked (because the page scrolls to the top) in Firefox 3.6 or

Answer 1

You say "preventDefault() helps" but you say it doesn't work? I'm not sure I understand. Have you tried this:

addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
    document.getElementById("link").addEventListener("click", function(e) {
        alert("Clicked!");
        e.preventDefault();
        return false;
    }, false);
    alert("Click handler bound!");
}, false);