Why won't Firefox open a web page with an apostrophe in the URL?

It has been more than a year since I asked the same question and the problem still exists. I can open these URLs in Safari and Chrome, but I prefer Firefox. Please see this discussion from May 2013.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/959895

Mac OS 10.9.4, Firefox 30.0

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Thanks for your response, but it does not solve anything.

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DON'T
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