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"Content Encoding Error" - Getting this error for Google.com, Linkdin and several other sites.

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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.

I am getting the above error for Google.com, linkedin.com and several other sites. Tried to find out solution but couldn't get a fix.

Please help. Thank you.

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. I am getting the above error for Google.com, linkedin.com and several other sites. Tried to find out solution but couldn't get a fix. Please help. Thank you.

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Hi ChouguleV,

Do you have any third-party software installed, maybe an anti-virus? Please trying disabling those and give it anther go.

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Hi ddtudoran,

Thanks for your reply. I had Kasper-sky anti-virus installed on my machine, but it has been there for quite a long time, Firefox was working fine few days before. It stopped working for few sites all of a sudden. I have uninstalled Kaspersky now, and switched back to windows firewall. But still Google, LinkedIn doesn't open on Firefox.

Modified by ChouguleV

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You can check these preferences on the about:config page and make sure they are default and not user set (bold).

  • network.http.accept-encoding "gzip, deflate"
  • network.http.accept-encoding.secure "gzip, deflate, br"
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cor-el said

You can check these preferences on the about:config page and make sure they are default and not user set (bold).
  • network.http.accept-encoding "gzip, deflate"
  • network.http.accept-encoding.secure "gzip, deflate, br"

@cor-el: These two settings have default values as you have mentioned.