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#1 2004-09-07 21:28:06

skoal
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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld
Registered: 2004-03-23
Posts: 612
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Firefox trashes websites

There are certain websites that do not render at all using Firefox.

Namely, try www.pricewatch.com

It mangles the entire screen and gives me Chinese Character Sets or some strange glyph sets.

There are others I have come across recently, but on rare occasion.

* I have the latest Firefox 0.9.3.  I do not recall having this problem using Firefox 0.8.x.  In addition, if I use Netscape, those same website render correctly.

Any ideas?

thanks.

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#2 2004-09-07 21:43:47

khazdar
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From: ohio
Registered: 2003-11-06
Posts: 123

Re: Firefox trashes websites

Loads fine for me. I use 0.9.3.

-Khaz

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#3 2004-09-07 21:45:56

i3839
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Registered: 2004-02-04
Posts: 1,185

Re: Firefox trashes websites

khazdar wrote:

Loads fine for me. I use 0.9.3.

-Khaz

Same for me.

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#4 2004-09-07 23:10:54

paranoos
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From: thornhill.on.ca
Registered: 2004-07-22
Posts: 442

Re: Firefox trashes websites

works perfectly here

try View -> Character Encoding -> Western (ISO-8859-1) to manually set your encoding properly.

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#5 2004-09-08 01:53:50

skoal
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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld
Registered: 2004-03-23
Posts: 612
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Re: Firefox trashes websites

pfft! go figure...

I just tried it again, and it works now.  I dunno. But, I didn't change a thing and it works fine now.

go figure.  I've been gone for last couple of hours, came back, read your emails, tried it, and works fine now.  I didn't change a thing. strange...

thanks for checking.

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