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Why do compressed responses not cache ETag headers

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I noticed Firefox is not using ETag headers for subsequent requests if the response is compressed, e.g. gzipped. If I toggle compression on my server, I can get a 304.

I noticed Firefox is not using ETag headers for subsequent requests if the response is compressed, e.g. gzipped. If I toggle compression on my server, I can get a 304.