diff --git a/src/jquery/jquery.js b/src/jquery/jquery.js
index 38caaf0ae..4e8f7d565 100644
--- a/src/jquery/jquery.js
+++ b/src/jquery/jquery.js
@@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 		// IE elem.getAttribute passes even for style
 		else if ( elem.tagName ) {
 			if ( value != undefined ) elem.setAttribute( name, value );
-			if ( jQuery.browser.msie && !jQuery.isXMLDoc(elem) && /^(href|src|background|cite|classid|codebase|data|longdesc|profile|usemap)$/.test(name) ) 
+			if ( jQuery.browser.msie && /href|src/.test(name) && !jQuery.isXMLDoc(elem) ) 
 				return elem.getAttribute( name, 2 );
 			return elem.getAttribute( name );
 
diff --git a/src/selector/selector.js b/src/selector/selector.js
index c6692e1b1..a6597f456 100644
--- a/src/selector/selector.js
+++ b/src/selector/selector.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 			_resort: function(m){
 				return ["", m[1], m[3], m[2], m[5]];
 			},
-			_prefix: "z=jQuery.attr(a,m[3]);" // just use attr instead of checking for property first. href in firefox return full URI as property
+			_prefix: "z=a[m[3]];if(!z||/href|src/.test(m[3]))z=jQuery.attr(a,m[3]);"
 		},
 		"[": "jQuery.find(m[2],a).length"
 	},