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Symbols load instead of webpages

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For ages now 4oD and Google have been loading symbols on my webpages like:

����������������

Is there any way to get the webpages loading properly again?

I tried clearing my cache & cookies.

Someone please help me it's VERY annoying!

Cheers!

For ages now 4oD and Google have been loading symbols on my webpages like: ���������������� Is there any way to get the webpages loading properly again? I tried clearing my cache & cookies. Someone please help me it's VERY annoying! Cheers!

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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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Thankyou very much!

I searched network.http.accept in the top search bar

and found "network.http.accept-encoding: gzip,deflate "

then did right click > reset

For anyone else who comes across this problem ^^^

Thankyouuu!

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Firefox (after closing and reloading) still gives me the same problem again with the symbols.

Any ideas?

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Chosen Solution

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Thankyou so much!

Such quick response too.

FireFox really is the best :)

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You're welcome

Glad you fixed the preference problem this time.

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Hey, thanx it did fix it BUT - the next day I opned firefox at a google website and... same thing :( Any idea on how to sort that out?

Cheers

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This fix my problem BUT next time I open firefox it goes back to the same error.... the changes I do in about:config don't stay... Any ideas for me?

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