champion Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 On seemingly random sites that I view in firefox, the text gets messed up, as illustrated: Refreshing doesn't do anything. This is only on Firefox, no similar problems in Chrome or IE. Help? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Runar Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Encoding problem probably... Click View > Character Encoding and try to switch it to something else The Runar's (OSRS) DIY blog - most viewed Blogscape blog ever! Contract? ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 What would you suggest changing it to? It's just on Western now, all the other ones don't seem to change anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordkafei Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I see that from time to time as well. But I was able to load the site in your pic (it says "Listen to Pandora. Send to Last.fm. Ebony, meet Ivory."). I am using Firefox 3.6.11. When you view the source code of the page, do you see readable text or that jibberish in your pic? PvP is not for meIn the 3rd Year of the BoycottReal-world money saved since FT/W: Hundreds of DollarsReal-world time saved since FT/W: Thousands of Hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 It shows the normal text in the source code. Here's another example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I got just one question... FireFox Version? :blink: Heck, I might as well ask... What are the urls of the pages you're visiting? :huh: ~D. V. "Huh?" Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wongtong Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I got that weird text too when I tried to install my Chinese handwriting tablet. I haven't found a solution yet. 8,180WONGTONG IS THE BEST AND IS MORE SUPERIOR THAN ME#1 Wongtong stalker.Im looking for some No Limit soldiers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 Here's the website from the OP: http://lastpandora.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 Hm. Here's another bizarre thing I found. Copying and pasting the strange text into another field (such as a search toolbar or the address bar) produces the regular not-messed-up text that normally would be there. :???: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Maybe it is caused by an Add-on? if you try disabling all the add-ons, is the text still like that? If it is not, then you can try enabling the add-ons one by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I went into safe mode and disabled all add-ons, the problem persists. My character encoding is set to Western (ISO-8859-1). I'm pretty sure that's just the default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I'm using Firefox 3.6.13 Here's the website from the OP: http://lastpandora.com/Okay, I don't seem to be having your problem... FireFox 2.0.0.6 (old, but good!) here... I think I've got support for other languages (which would probably negate the issue happening) installed on this system, but this Power User account I have won't let me check. :blink: BTW, upon further investigation, the page itself is apparently being delivered in the encoding you have selected, as my browser is using the same both under manual and auto-detection settings. Worst case, you might have to reinstall the "Western (ISO-8859-1)" character encoding, if not the FireFox browser as well. But I really hope it doesn't come to that, as it could be a nightmare. :ohnoes: ~D. V. "Looks like an obscure anomaly to me..." Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champion Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 Meh I won't bother with reinstalling the Western character encoding since it seems to be working fine on other browsers. I'm downloading the Firefox 4.0 beta now to see if there's any difference at all. Edit: Well everything works just fine on the 4.0 beta, for now at least. I guess I'll just have to get used to 4.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesset Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 That's happened to me a couple times, especially on my school's computers. Usually just restarting works. Alternatively, a reinstall would work as well. My skin is finally getting softI'll scrub until the damn thing comes off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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