diff --git a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/Parser.java b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/Parser.java
index 9a89faf7dc..7dffa2e346 100644
--- a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/Parser.java
+++ b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/Parser.java
@@ -3087,6 +3087,7 @@ private AstNode primaryExpr() throws IOException {
                 return new KeywordLiteral(pos, end - pos, tt);
 
             case Token.QUASI:
+                consumeToken();
                 return quasiLiteral();
 
             case Token.RESERVED:
diff --git a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/ScriptRuntime.java b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/ScriptRuntime.java
index 2ecef8152f..d7c0a4f112 100644
--- a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/ScriptRuntime.java
+++ b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/ScriptRuntime.java
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ public static String escapeString(String s) {
      * For escaping strings printed by object and array literals; not quite the same as 'escape.'
      */
     public static String escapeString(String s, char escapeQuote) {
-        if (!(escapeQuote == '"' || escapeQuote == '\'' || escapeQuote == '`')) Kit.codeBug();
+        if (!(escapeQuote == '"' || escapeQuote == '\'')) Kit.codeBug();
         StringBuilder sb = null;
 
         for (int i = 0, L = s.length(); i != L; ++i) {
diff --git a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/TokenStream.java b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/TokenStream.java
index 40a6179afc..cff7cbfc33 100644
--- a/src/org/mozilla/javascript/TokenStream.java
+++ b/src/org/mozilla/javascript/TokenStream.java
@@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ final int getToken() throws IOException {
             }
 
             // is it a string?
-            if (c == '"' || c == '\'' || c == '`') {
+            if (c == '"' || c == '\'') {
                 // We attempt to accumulate a string the fast way, by
                 // building it directly out of the reader.  But if there
                 // are any escaped characters in the string, we revert to
@@ -2030,7 +2030,7 @@ private int getCharIgnoreLineEnd(boolean skipFormattingChars) throws IOException
                 }
             } else {
                 if (c == BYTE_ORDER_MARK) return c; // BOM is considered whitespace
-                if (isJSFormatChar(c)) {
+                if (skipFormattingChars && isJSFormatChar(c)) {
                     continue;
                 }
                 if (ScriptRuntime.isJSLineTerminator(c)) {