64 Part II — Getting Inside Gmail
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...x$..........The headers are understandable enough, but the content is very strange indeed.
This is because your browser is taking advantage of Gzip encoding. Most modern
web servers can serve content encoded with the Gzip algorithm, and most mod-
ern browsers are happy to decode it on the fly. Human brains, of course, cannot, so
you need to force Gmail to send whatever it is sending over unencoded.In the first few chapters of this book, you’ve been using Firefox, so return to that
browser again now. In the address bar, type the URL about:config.You should see a page looking like Figure 5-6.FIGURE5-6: The Firefox secret settings page