diff --git a/js/src/frontend/BytecodeCompiler.cpp b/js/src/frontend/BytecodeCompiler.cpp
index e9466fbfc2c..bc0f57f773e 100644
--- a/js/src/frontend/BytecodeCompiler.cpp
+++ b/js/src/frontend/BytecodeCompiler.cpp
@@ -1504,6 +1504,7 @@ static bool DelazifyCanonicalScriptedFunctionImpl(
       .setSelfHostingMode(false)
       .setEagerDelazificationStrategy(lazy->delazificationMode())
       .setEagerBaselineStrategy(JS::EagerBaselineOption::None);
+  options.allowHTMLComments = !lazy->hasModuleGoal();
 
   Rooted<CompilationInput> input(cx, CompilationInput(options));
   input.get().initFromLazy(cx, lazy, ss);
@@ -1615,6 +1616,7 @@ static const CompilationStencil* DelazifyCanonicalScriptedFunctionImpl(
       .setScriptSourceOffset(sourceStart)
       .setNoScriptRval(false)
       .setSelfHostingMode(false);
+  options.allowHTMLComments = !extra.hasModuleGoal();
 
   // CompilationInput initialized with initFromStencil only reference
   // information from the CompilationStencil context and the ref-counted