Firefox shows some pages as binary(?)

**Cybolic** · February 1st, 2012

On some pages - I haven't been able to find a pattern in which - Firefox show nothing but what appears to be binary code rendered as text.

Example:
6yvxE70xzeURPuzLHh5fAL.jpg

I'm using the version from the mozillateam/firefox-next PPA.

Has anyone experienced this or know a fix?

**Cybolic** · February 1st, 2012

Also, saving the page from either the main window or from the view source window, saves the .html file correctly... it's very weird.

**sanderd17** · February 1st, 2012

Strange, can you try with a fresh profile?

You can rename your .mozilla directore (it's hidden, show it with CTRL+H in nautilus) to something else, so firefox doesn't find it any more and will create a new profile.

Code:

mv .mozilla mozilla-backup

**Cybolic** · February 1st, 2012

Strange, that worked!
Thanks for the tip

**sanderd17** · February 2nd, 2012

Originally Posted by Cybolic

Strange, that worked!
Thanks for the tip

It has to be some setting, somewhere.

You have now lost all your bookmarks and history etc (unless you set up sync I believe). But they aren't totally lost. You can get them back by switching the directory names again. But that will cause the pages to render in binary too.

So it's only good to get some info, temporarily.

**Cybolic** · February 2nd, 2012

Yeah, don't worry, I know how it functions

I just had that close bond to my tabs before, and didn't really want to see them go - luxury problem, I know.

If only I could grep the sqlite database to see where the settings differ, but never mind - I didn't have much that wasn't already in Chrome.