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Ever since upgrading FireFox, my websites appear as a jumble of letters and random characters as seen attached (http://i.imgur.com/tQTQ6.png), how to fix?

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Hi guys.

I've had this problem with a few other sites recently however as of this morning when Firefox was upgraded I unfortunately ran into a big of a snag - my Twitter site is not displaying correctly and I am unfortunately unable to access it

It basically loads and looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/tQTQ6.png

The same problem has affected a torrent site I visit occasionally as well as Wikipedia pages at certain points (however, refreshing the Wikipedia pages fixes the problem but not for twitter or the torrent site KAT).

What can I do? I have had all my add-ons installed before and after this problem happened so I am unsure if it actually is them causing any problems.

Hi guys. I've had this problem with a few other sites recently however as of this morning when Firefox was upgraded I unfortunately ran into a big of a snag - my Twitter site is not displaying correctly and I am unfortunately unable to access it It basically loads and looks like this http://i.imgur.com/tQTQ6.png The same problem has affected a torrent site I visit occasionally as well as Wikipedia pages at certain points (however, refreshing the Wikipedia pages fixes the problem but not for twitter or the torrent site KAT). What can I do? I have had all my add-ons installed before and after this problem happened so I am unsure if it actually is them causing any problems.

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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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Oh, wow! Thank you so much, I couldn't find help for this problem anywhere.

What do you think caused this problem? Or does it just naturally happen?

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Hi again.

This problem is still recurring, for some reason, seemingly after closing or opening Firefox, the option in about:config is moved back to "user defined" and I have to keep resetting them.

Anyone got any ideaes?

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Unfortunately, the problem still persists even after resettng and rebooting in safe mode etc. Any ideas? It just randomly keeps changing back to "user defined" instead of "deflate;g-zip"

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