Why are most websites only displaying code like text?
Almost all of the web sites that I frequent have began displaying code like text on a blank white background. Some sites still have hyperlinks and images here and there with random text, but others are fully blank with what appears to be the code of the website showing. I wasn't able to access this web site until I tried multiple times and it magically worked, but others are still not working. The only sites that I have tested that have worked from the start are Google related sites (Gmail, Google, Youtube). My yahoo email is inaccessible, which is an important email for me and all other sites that i frequent are inaccessible. One major thing to note is that the sites are also inaccessible on Internet Explorer. This would typically lead you to believe that the problem lies with your connection in some way. I have reset my router/modem and it had no effect. I also have ran CCleaner and have deleted temp files, cookies, and caches. I have tried running Mozilla in safe mode with add-ons disabled as well. My malware protection and antivirus protection find no issues after completing full scans. One last thing to note is that, on both Firefox and IE, certain sites allow to me to access the homepage, such as yahoo, but once I attempt to check my mail the random display of code appears. On IE it simply says that the site cannot be displayed once I click to check my mail. Gmail works perfect on the other hand. The only things that I have done during this time are:
Setup a LogMeIn account (Hamachi) and connected my PC to their service Downloaded and began using Malewarebytes software to remove malware that I had picked up
Other than those two things it has been the same usual actions on my PC. Could the malware that I had still be effecting me somehow even though it was found/deleted? Is my router to blame even though resetting it does not help? After all the things I have tried, what could it be?
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Make sure that you allow pages to choose their colors and that you haven't enabled High Contrast in the Accessibility settings.
- Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Colors : [X] "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above"
I allow pages to choose their own colors and high contrast is not on. Those links don't seem to help. Any other suggestions?
Can you attach a screenshot?
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenshot
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/how-do-i-create-screenshot-my-problem
Use a compressed image type like PNG or JPG to save the screenshot.
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
- Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
- Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
- Press "Command + Shift + R" (MAC)
Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
- Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
- Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
- Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
I tried your suggestions, but the problem remains. I have cleared cache and cookies many times throughout the day as well. I have used CCleaner and also TFC ( temporary files cleaner). The key combinations had no effect either. Here are some screenshots of what im looking at:
What is the content type of those pages if you check that via Tools > Page Info > General?
Is that text/html as it should be or text/plain as your screenshot would suggest?
You can also check the Net log via the Web Console (Web Developer > Web Console;Ctrl+Shift+K)
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Web_Console
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_the_Web_Console
This can be a problem with your firewall that modifies the server response headers if the settings in Firefox are correct.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting
A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that works.
The text info says text/plain.
The web console says:
[08:56:51.511] The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature. @ http://www.animeftw.tv/anime
[08:56:51.512] Use of Mutation Events is deprecated. Use MutationObserver instead. @ chrome://divxhtml5/content/script.js:19
Firefox should see such documents as text/html to render them and the server does send them as such.
If you get a text/plain document then that means that the content type in the response headers has been changed before Firefox sees the file.
Did you try to boot the computer in Safe mode (F8 on boot screen) to check if security software is making the change?
Reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
- Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
- Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
- Press "Command + Shift + R" (MAC)
In Safe Mode all sites work properly. So this means that security software is the problem? I recently downloaded Malewarebytes around the time that this problem occurred, but the people over at Malwarebytes told me that their software doesn't have this effect on websites. Perhaps they were wrong?
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Which security software (firewall, anti-virus) do you have?
A possible cause is security software (firewall,anti-virus) that blocks or restricts Firefox or the plugin-container process without informing you, possibly after detecting changes (update) to the Firefox program.
Remove all rules for Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list in the firewall and let your firewall ask again for permission to get full unrestricted access to internet for Firefox and the plugin-container process and the updater process.
See:
See also:
I use McAfee Plus. When I remove Firefox and the plugin-container from the permissions list, McAfee adds Firefox back in automatically without asking me, but the plugin-container is not added back. Even when I set the firewall to always ask for permission it still adds Firefox back to full access upon starting up Firefox. McAfee hasn't asked me to provide access for the plugin-container. I noticed that McAfee has some plugins for Firefox, but disabling them didn't change anything with the firewall or websites. The updater process was not in the list to begin with, but I added it in.
I also restored the firewall to defaults and restarted Firefox, but nothing changed. The Technet link does not work for me either. It is in text/plain like the other sites.
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Still need help!
It is interesting to note that one website has switched from the text/plain to the text/html, although the site is not fully restored properly. Images, links, and videos are now viewable, but the site only covers the left half of the screen with the other half blank. Text is also scrunched up and not every single aspect of the site is restored. I must note though that many sites still list text/plain and that I am still, very much so, in need of assistance on this issue.
Edit: A few moments later it switched back to text/plain upon refreshing.
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Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that works if you haven't tested that yet.
You will have to reload the web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
- Press and hold Shift and left-click the Reload button.
- Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
- Press "Command + Shift + R" (MAC)
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Hey cor-el, thank you for your support. I just came home and I saw that McAfee had a prompt telling me that it found and deleted a Trojan. I restarted the PC and now all the sites work again. I re-booted the PC in Safe mode with networking yesterday and the websites worked. I think I stated this earlier, but in any case, the sites appear to be working normally now. Thanks again.