Because I’m a Technical Idiot

Posted on May 12, 2004    Posted by John Scalzi

Does anyone else out there using the Mozilla Firefox browser have problems viewing Blogspot-based blogs?

The problem I have is that after the first couple of paragraphs all I get is gibberish that looks like this (taken from this blog):

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Sometimes reloading the page works, sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t have the problem at all in IE. The Firefox version I’m using is 0.8.

Anyone else having this problem? Any ideas as to what might be causing it?

I mean, I don’t read that many Blogspot blogs, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to read the ones I do. Opening up a separate browser just to look at them is kind of annoying.