How to fix Content Encoding Error?

  • Resolved sedelstein

    (@sedelstein)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    When I go to my website in Firefox I get a Content-Encoding Error (below). I do not get that error with Safari or Chrome. What could be causing this?

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    Content Encoding Error

    The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

    Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

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  • Moderator t-p

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    https://www.google.com/search?q=Content+Encoding+Error+in+Firefox&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

    Thread Starter sedelstein

    (@sedelstein)

    Thanks. Here’s what worked (found in one of the search results):

    1) In the address bar type “about:config” (but without the inverted commas)
    2) Tell it that you will be careful, Promise!!
    3) In the filter type encoding
    4) There should be one option reading “network.http.accept-encoding”
    5) Click in the value column and type “true” (again without the inverted commas)

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it ??

    bmadson3

    (@bmadson3)

    sedelstein

    This was so helpful, thank you.

    By chance do you know what causes this and if there is way to avoid this? I only got the error in Firefox but my page loaded but did not display my content in Chrome.

    Thank you.

    This solution does not fix the problem for your website users, only for yourself. I too am looking for a solution but a permanent one one that solves it in the code of the affected web page, not in my own browser. EVERYBODY needs to see my web page, not just me!

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