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Thursday, October 04, 2007

Google sending application/xhtml+xml and Firefox gets a XML Parsing Error

One of the problems using a handful of Firefox Add-ons is one day something isn’t going to work. And today that was google.com.au not working for me.
Using the Live Headers, I could see that Google was sending application/xhtml+xml headers. Because their meta tag wasn’t closed, it was causing firefox to display the XML Parsing Error.

Live HTTP Headers




Firefox XML Parse Error




Force Content Type


Using the Force Content Type Add-On I am able to change the Content header from application/xhtml+xml to text/html


That wasn't too hard to fix, as I wasn't prepared to spend a good amount of time disabling Firefox Add-ons, and could still use everything I needed and wanted.

To see what Firefox Add-ons I use, check out my previous post : All we need is another 20+ Must have Firefox extensions

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