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cannot open yahoo mail

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Superpeach
Superpeach

Today started using EeePC with linux and Firefox. I cannot get into yahoo email. Message is: "The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression" How do I fix this? Thanks.

Today started using EeePC with linux and Firefox. I cannot get into yahoo email. Message is: "The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression" How do I fix this? Thanks.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.

  • "Clear the Cache": Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
  • "Remove the Cookies" from sites causing problems: Edit > Preferences > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Superpeach
Superpeach Question owner

Thanks for your reply. I did as you said re: cache and cookies but still got this message:

"Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression."

I tried blocking cookies for Yahoo but that displeased them. Perhaps I am doing something incorrectly?