Web Page Shows Its Code to Chrome, Not Firefox
A colleague recently shared this perplexing situation that led to viewing a web page like the one shown above:
An instructor in my department is having a problem with Chrome and would like some help on how to solve the problem. Following is the message that she sent to me. Thank you in advance for any feedback that I might pass along to her.
A website is viewed perfectly in IE or firefox. However, when viewed using Google Chrome the website just displays the HTML code. I tried using Wc3 valuators to validate the code. However, I am still not 100% certain why this is occurring? Any ideas, suggestions, etc.?????? HELP!
Website with the problem: http://www.electrasave.com/
Although a bit late last night, I decided to check it out. The site appeared fine in Firefox on UbuntuLinux, but on Chrome (again running on UbuntuLinux), the site appeared as code. What a fascinating problem! Here’s what the page should look like in Chrome (and appears just fine in Firefox):
I’m not sure why it occurred to me to check the encoding, just a flash of insight.
Some quick investigation revealed that the page will display properly on Chrome. Firefox detected that the page was encoded as Unicode UTF-16LE. Chrome doesn’t.
To get Chrome to recognize it as such, you have to change the encoding by going to the little wrench, clicking on it, go to TOOLS and under ENCODING, choose UTF-16LE. This is a temporary solution, though, because if you leave the site, Chrome defaults back to whatever is the default.
To make the change permanently, go to your Chrome Options, and Look in “UNDER THE HOOD.”
Scroll down until you see WEB CONTENT section, click on Change Font and Language Settings, and change the default encoding to UTF-16LE. This will ensure the site linked in your email works without problem.
Making the change didn’t seem to adversely affect visiting other web sites…they showed up just fine, as did the page in question. Kinda geeky, huh? Again, what a fun problem to solve at day’s end.
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