Text Encoding no longer available in the Firefox menu panel

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  • Revision id: 227506
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  • Creator: AliceWyman
  • Comment: added images; update for fx91 (Bug 1725937)
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Starting in Firefox version 89, a Text Encoding menu item is no longer available from the Firefox menu The image "Fx89MenuButton" does not exist.Fx57menu panel.

You can access Repair Text EncodingText Encoding from the Menu bar when the Menu bar is enabled, by clicking View and then Repair Text EncodingText Encoding. You can press and release the Alt key to temporarily show the Menu bar.

Fx90View-TextEncodingFx91View-RepairTextEncoding
Note: On most modern pages, the "Repair Text Encoding""Text Encoding" menu item will be greyed-out because encoding changes are not supported.

Firefox 91 introduces a new Repair Text Encoding feature. There is no longer a sub-menu with a list of encoding choices. When the Repair Text Encoding menu item is activated and you click on it, Firefox will automatically change the character encoding based on page content, when this is possible.

Tip: You can also customize your Firefox toolbar to add a Repair Text EncodingText Encoding button:

  1. Click the menu button Fx89menuButton, then click More tools and select Customize Toolbar…
    • A special tab will open, where you can drag and drop items in or out of the overflow menu and the toolbar.
  2. Drag theRepair Text EncodingText Encoding button to the toolbar.
  3. Click Done.