“Bad Request. Your browser sent a query this server could not understand”

That was what I’ve been getting on my Firefox everytime I need to login to something be it my Facebook, email, webmail and banking accounts. I can only view the page correctly after I refreshed it.

It happened quite a few months ago when I upgraded my Firefox to the latest version. At that time, I thought it was Firefox’s problem and I’ve stopped using Firefox and was on my Safari 4 all the time for 2 months because it was really annoying the hell out of me.

Until just recently, I missed Firefox so much for the useful plug-ins like Firebug (troubleshooting some work recently), Web Developer toolbar, and del.icio.us bookmark, I had to try to fix this issue. I tested logging in to my webmail at my bf’s MacBook on his latest Firefox. Everything was fine. This confirmed that something was wrong within my MacBook itself.

Much research led me to “Parental Control” settings. Oops! Few months back I accidentally enabled it for the account I’m using just to check out what Parental Control function was all about. I disabled the Parental Control, restart the computer and then try logging in to my webmail via Firefox again and this time it’s fine! So it’s fixed! It’s fixed!!

So yeah, the solution for this is to disable the Parental Control even if there aren’t anything selected.

And now I’m back to Firefox, dumping Safari 4 aside. I’ll only use Safari 4 when they become like Firefox or when I need to do cross-browser compatibility checking :D

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