diff --git a/lib/less/browser.js b/lib/less/browser.js
index edb9c244..e69ed45e 100644
--- a/lib/less/browser.js
+++ b/lib/less/browser.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ less.watch   = function () {
         less.env = 'development';
          initRunningMode();
     }
-    return this.watchMode = true 
+    return this.watchMode = true
 };
 
 less.unwatch = function () {clearInterval(less.watchTimer); return this.watchMode = false; };
@@ -134,9 +134,18 @@ less.refreshStyles = loadStyles;
 less.refresh(less.env === 'development');
 
 function loadStyles(newVars) {
-    var styles = document.getElementsByTagName('style');
-    for (var i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
+    // returned list of style tags gets updated automatically. because we track
+    // indexes, we need a non-mutating local copy to work with.
+    var nodeList = document.getElementsByTagName('style');
+    var styles = new Array(nodeList.length);
+    var i;
+    // Array.slice not guaranteed to work on host objects, forcing a manual loop
+    for (i = 0; i < nodeList.length; i++) {
+        styles[i] = nodeList[i];
+    }
+    for (i = 0; i < styles.length; i++) {
         if (styles[i].type.match(typePattern)) {
+            console.log(i);
             var env = new less.tree.parseEnv(less),
                 lessText = styles[i].innerHTML || '';
             env.filename = document.location.href.replace(/#.*$/, '');
@@ -145,19 +154,23 @@ function loadStyles(newVars) {
                 lessText += "\n" + newVars;
             }
 
-            new(less.Parser)(env).parse(lessText, function (e, cssAST) {
-                if (e) {
-                    return error(e, "inline");
+            // use closure to store current value of i
+            var callback = (function(i) {
+                return function (e, cssAST) {
+                    if (e) {
+                        return error(e, "inline");
+                    }
+                    var css = cssAST.toCSS(less);
+                    var style = styles[i];
+                    style.type = 'text/css';
+                    if (style.styleSheet) {
+                        style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
+                    } else {
+                        style.innerHTML = css;
+                    }
                 }
-                var css = cssAST.toCSS(less);
-                var style = styles[i];
-                style.type = 'text/css';
-                if (style.styleSheet) {
-                    style.styleSheet.cssText = css;
-                } else {
-                    style.innerHTML = css;
-                }
-            });
+            })(i);
+            new(less.Parser)(env).parse(lessText, callback);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -207,7 +220,7 @@ function extractUrlParts(url, baseUrl) {
         throw new Error("Could not parse sheet href - '"+url+"'");
     }
 
-    // Stylesheets in IE don't always return the full path    
+    // Stylesheets in IE don't always return the full path
     if (!urlParts[1] || urlParts[2]) {
         baseUrlParts = baseUrl.match(urlPartsRegex);
         if (!baseUrlParts) {
@@ -218,7 +231,7 @@ function extractUrlParts(url, baseUrl) {
             urlParts[3] = baseUrlParts[3] + urlParts[3];
         }
     }
-    
+
     if (urlParts[3]) {
         directories = urlParts[3].replace("\\", "/").split("/");
 
diff --git a/test/browser-test-prepare.js b/test/browser-test-prepare.js
index 31d3eaa8..f9c81343 100644
--- a/test/browser-test-prepare.js
+++ b/test/browser-test-prepare.js
@@ -15,11 +15,12 @@ var createTestRunnerPage = function(dir, exclude, testSuiteName, dir2) {
     readDirFilesSync(path.join("test", dir, 'less', dir2 || ""), /\.less$/, function (file) {
         var name = path.basename(file, '.less'),
             id = (dir ? dir + '-' : "") + 'less-' + (dir2 ? dir2 + "-" : "") + name;
-        
+
         if (exclude && name.match(exclude)) { return; }
-        
+
         output += '<link id="original-less:' + id + '" rel="stylesheet/less" type="text/css" href="/' + path.join(dir, 'less', dir2 || "", name) + '.less' +'">\n';
         output += '<link id="expected-less:' + id + '" rel="stylesheet"  type="text/css" href="/' + path.join(dir, 'css', dir2 || "", name) + '.css' + '">\n';
+        output += '<style id="inline-less:' + id + '" type="text/less">@import "/' + path.join(dir, 'less', dir2 || "", name) + '.less' + '";</style>\n';
     });
 
     output += String(fs.readFileSync(path.join('test/browser', 'template.htm'))).replace("{runner-name}", testSuiteName);
@@ -44,4 +45,4 @@ createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "relative-urls", "relative-urls");
 createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "rootpath", "rootpath");
 createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "rootpath-relative", "rootpath-relative");
 createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "production");
-createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "modify-vars", "modify-vars");
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+createTestRunnerPage("browser", null, "modify-vars", "modify-vars");