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Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Fixing FFFD boxes in Firefox

Perhaps you're experiencing strange little boxes with "FF FD" in them when using Firefox 3.0. Here's the fix that worked for me:

View >> Character Encoding >> Auto-detect >> Universal

More in the Firefox Support Forum.


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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:32 PM

    thank you!

    this fixed an annoying problem.

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  2. Anonymous4:01 PM

    Also, more info on the problem at my blog.

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  3. Anonymous1:42 PM

    thanks!!

    problem solved.

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  4. Anonymous3:33 PM

    didnt work for me :(

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  5. Anonymous11:42 PM

    don't work for me, either. English OS

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  6. Anonymous9:15 AM

    Solved, thanks!

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  7. Anonymous10:01 AM

    Worked for me
    Thanks!

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  8. Anonymous7:38 AM

    Awesome. Trying to figure out what currency these properties were in. FF FD.....? French Franc/French Deutschmark?

    Euros! Thanks

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  9. Anonymous5:51 AM

    mahalo!

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  10. leo4:02 PM

    Obrigado. Funcionou!! its work!! :))

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  11. Anonymous10:37 AM

    Unfortunately, changing the encoding to Western or Universal might fix the problem, but it creates others. For example it turns ► (the ALT16) bullet character into â–º

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  12. Anonymous5:20 AM

    This didn't work for me, either, but I then tried this: View->Character Encoding->Western(ISO-8859-1) which worked. I haven't restarted Firefox yet, though, so I don't know if the fix will persist.

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