Weird Browsers Behavior
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In the last few days Chrome on my notebook started displaying broken pages, downloading corrupted files and so on. Initially I suspected it was broken, so I re-installed it. Now it has started happening on my desktop as well on Firefox, Chrome and IE, so I decided it was something else. I checked everything I could, namely network settings, the router, and whatnot, and I came to the conclusion that perhaps it's the ISP's proxy server that is returning garbage. Please note that I've never configured the proxy explicitly, so I'm wondering if routers and operating systems are able to detect the ISP's proxy and use it automatically. Advice would be appreciated. Anyway, I've forced all browsers to not use a proxy server (and ignore "automatic" settings), and at least on the desktop everything is working fine (for now). Any similar experience?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
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In the last few days Chrome on my notebook started displaying broken pages, downloading corrupted files and so on. Initially I suspected it was broken, so I re-installed it. Now it has started happening on my desktop as well on Firefox, Chrome and IE, so I decided it was something else. I checked everything I could, namely network settings, the router, and whatnot, and I came to the conclusion that perhaps it's the ISP's proxy server that is returning garbage. Please note that I've never configured the proxy explicitly, so I'm wondering if routers and operating systems are able to detect the ISP's proxy and use it automatically. Advice would be appreciated. Anyway, I've forced all browsers to not use a proxy server (and ignore "automatic" settings), and at least on the desktop everything is working fine (for now). Any similar experience?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
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In the last few days Chrome on my notebook started displaying broken pages, downloading corrupted files and so on. Initially I suspected it was broken, so I re-installed it. Now it has started happening on my desktop as well on Firefox, Chrome and IE, so I decided it was something else. I checked everything I could, namely network settings, the router, and whatnot, and I came to the conclusion that perhaps it's the ISP's proxy server that is returning garbage. Please note that I've never configured the proxy explicitly, so I'm wondering if routers and operating systems are able to detect the ISP's proxy and use it automatically. Advice would be appreciated. Anyway, I've forced all browsers to not use a proxy server (and ignore "automatic" settings), and at least on the desktop everything is working fine (for now). Any similar experience?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
On linux system, we can check this problem (downloading issue) via a command line program (wget) to just make sure that all browsers have issues.
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In the last few days Chrome on my notebook started displaying broken pages, downloading corrupted files and so on. Initially I suspected it was broken, so I re-installed it. Now it has started happening on my desktop as well on Firefox, Chrome and IE, so I decided it was something else. I checked everything I could, namely network settings, the router, and whatnot, and I came to the conclusion that perhaps it's the ISP's proxy server that is returning garbage. Please note that I've never configured the proxy explicitly, so I'm wondering if routers and operating systems are able to detect the ISP's proxy and use it automatically. Advice would be appreciated. Anyway, I've forced all browsers to not use a proxy server (and ignore "automatic" settings), and at least on the desktop everything is working fine (for now). Any similar experience?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
In addition to Dave's suggestion (an overflowing cache can cause a myriad of problems), you might want to follow this[^] advice, if you haven't already done so.
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In the last few days Chrome on my notebook started displaying broken pages, downloading corrupted files and so on. Initially I suspected it was broken, so I re-installed it. Now it has started happening on my desktop as well on Firefox, Chrome and IE, so I decided it was something else. I checked everything I could, namely network settings, the router, and whatnot, and I came to the conclusion that perhaps it's the ISP's proxy server that is returning garbage. Please note that I've never configured the proxy explicitly, so I'm wondering if routers and operating systems are able to detect the ISP's proxy and use it automatically. Advice would be appreciated. Anyway, I've forced all browsers to not use a proxy server (and ignore "automatic" settings), and at least on the desktop everything is working fine (for now). Any similar experience?
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
If your ISP has a transparent proxy, there is not much you can do to evade it. It reroutes HTTP traffic on a TCP/IP level to the proxy automatically. The only way to prevent broken cache, is to Ctrl + F5 (invalidate the cache). Also, your ISP might be nice and add a Cache header to HTTP request.
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If your ISP has a transparent proxy, there is not much you can do to evade it. It reroutes HTTP traffic on a TCP/IP level to the proxy automatically. The only way to prevent broken cache, is to Ctrl + F5 (invalidate the cache). Also, your ISP might be nice and add a Cache header to HTTP request.
I suspected something like that. In fact, the same page loaded via HTTPS is perfect (I'm having lots of problems with developer.android.com right now).
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog