Assigning Object.prototype causes issues with jQuery
<p>I'm trying to assign a function to Object.prototype.equals similar to what's done in <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1068834/object-comparison-in-javascript">Object comparison in JavaScript</a>. The function works perfectly, but whenever I have jQuery about, I get errors like:</p>

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  <p>name.replace is not a function</p>
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<p>referring to line 6490 in jquery-1.6.1.js.</p>

<p>Does anyone know why this could be happening?</p>
