diff --git a/mozilla/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp b/mozilla/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
index 252fe41b9ce..a1880b01937 100644
--- a/mozilla/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream::Initialize(nsIOutputStream* aOutStream,
 
   // If we're encoding only the selection, then we don't want to risk
   // ignoring whitespace which might be significant:
-  if (mFlags | nsIDocumentEncoder::OutputSelectionOnly)
-    mInWhitespace = PR_FALSE;
+// Unfortunately, this isn't the right solution because then we
+// always get a space at the beginning of selection-only output!
+//  if (mFlags | nsIDocumentEncoder::OutputSelectionOnly)
+//    mInWhitespace = PR_FALSE;
 
   return result;
 }
diff --git a/mozilla/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp b/mozilla/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
index 252fe41b9ce..a1880b01937 100644
--- a/mozilla/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/parser/htmlparser/src/nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream.cpp
@@ -245,8 +245,10 @@ nsHTMLToTXTSinkStream::Initialize(nsIOutputStream* aOutStream,
 
   // If we're encoding only the selection, then we don't want to risk
   // ignoring whitespace which might be significant:
-  if (mFlags | nsIDocumentEncoder::OutputSelectionOnly)
-    mInWhitespace = PR_FALSE;
+// Unfortunately, this isn't the right solution because then we
+// always get a space at the beginning of selection-only output!
+//  if (mFlags | nsIDocumentEncoder::OutputSelectionOnly)
+//    mInWhitespace = PR_FALSE;
 
   return result;
 }