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Firefox loading pages that come up in inelligble symbols?

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When I try to login to something like gmail or youtube - the page comes up in a whole bunch of symbols but works fine in internet explorer? Can anyone help?

When I try to login to something like gmail or youtube - the page comes up in a whole bunch of symbols but works fine in internet explorer? Can anyone help?

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You can check the network.http.* prefs on the about:config page and reset all bold user set network.http prefs to the default value via the right-click context menu -> Reset.

Check at least:

  • network.http.accept-encoding: gzip,deflate
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Could you check cor-el's solution to this question and see whether it works for you? Website displays random code instead of page.

Never mind, you got your own custom solution.

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