On my Macbook when logging on certain websites the page only shows some gurbled chinese characters.

When I log on to my banking on-line web address or my company's secure website the page comes garbled with some Chinese characters but the same page comes OK on Safari.

Which encoding is used?
*Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
*View > Character Encoding
If an UTF-16 encoding is used then try UTF-8 or a Western encoding (ISO-8859-1)

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