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Old 26 June 2008, 10:19 AM
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i have vista and firefox 3 and when i try to use the search this comes up

Content Encoding Error













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









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.
Old 26 June 2008, 10:28 AM
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366023
Old 26 June 2008, 10:29 AM
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There are a couple of suggested workarounds here:
Getting a "Content Encoding Error" message in Firefox? | CGarvey's Blog
Old 26 June 2008, 03:58 PM
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can't make head or tail of that sorry
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Basically try 'Ctrl+F5'. If not try clearing your browsers cache and/or cookies and try again.
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Or use IE7 (runs and hides )
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I believe it happens on IE too, just gives a different error

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Originally Posted by DJ Dunk
Basically try 'Ctrl+F5'. If not try clearing your browsers cache and/or cookies and try again.
tried those still the same ?
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