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Firefox can't see Sky news

My copy of Firefox has just strated showing an error whenever I try to view the Sky news website (http://news.sky.com/skynews/)

I now get a 'Page Load Error' which says

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 web site owners to inform them of this problem.

When I use IE on the same PC it works, and when I use FF on my work PC it's fine too.

Any ideas? (Firefox version 3.0.6)
 
no probs here either.. try disabling plugins and trying again, also update firefox to the latest stable if its not... current version is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
 
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I tried disabling the addons and it made no difference, and I'm on the latest version - that was the first thing I tried when the problem started yesterday.
 
Works for me as well, perhaps FF has picked up some corruption in its compression algorithms. Try logging on through a proxy website to check it is not your ISP causing problems; then if that fails, uninstall FF3, re-boot and reinstall FF3.

That usually solves most software problems and does not take long to do with FF3
 
Works fine for me as well, though I am using the 'portable' (portableapps.com) edition of FF 3.1b2.
 
Works for me as well, perhaps FF has picked up some corruption in its compression algorithms. Try logging on through a proxy website to check it is not your ISP causing problems; then if that fails, uninstall FF3, re-boot and reinstall FF3.

That usually solves most software problems and does not take long to do with FF3

Its not my ISP since my laptop views the page without a problem over the same connection, as does IE on both machine (as does my work PC which is still on FF3.0).

Looks like a re-install then.
 
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I have seen that problem before on a strange ISP.. I thought it must be some kind of thing the ISP was doing.
It was a brand new install of FireFox with no previous versions.

After a lot of refreshing it worked in the end.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
Try this trick

Try this...an old trick but it's worth trying. It works on XP & Vista. I couldn't get into Paypal and this was the answer. Nothing to do with my browser...it was Windows blocking the site.
Go to Windows\system32\drivers\etc (and yes etc is a folder) and use Notepad to open up the file "hosts", you should find very little. I found a whole list of Paypal URLs which should not have been there. I deleted them, saved the file and all was well. How they got in there and why is a mystery...but it did work. All that is there now is 127.0.0.1 and ::1 localhost which is all there should be. If you're worried about making changes to Windows files then just make a copy of "hosts" before you start and save it in another folder as backup.
This is what it should look like....

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
 
actually "::1 localhost" shouldnt be there, unless your using the other hosts file trick the only entry that should be there is "127.0.0.1 localhost"

the other trick l mentioned was refering to local DNS basically you need to find the ip then add the domain as it explains eg: # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

aka
IP domain.com #optional note
 
Its working now anyway - god only knows why it stopped.

Thx for your help though.

Andy
 
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