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Strange Firefox Problem

by LIndaB
9 replies
Starting yesterday, every time I try to go to Pay Pal in Firefox, I get the following:

Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.


And yet I have no problem getting to Pay Pal with Internet Explorer. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? It's very annoying to have to change browsers every time I need to check my Pay Pal account.
#firefox #problem #strange
  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Your Firefox (enhanced) prefetching settings may be too high (for PayPal's liking) - just Google it, for instructions to lower/turn off the setting. Or look at a plugin like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...asterfox-9148/ to tweak that.
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    • Profile picture of the author LIndaB
      Kokopelli, thanks for answering. I just found these instructions to disable prefetching:

      1. In the Firefox Address Bar type about:config and press Enter.
      2. Find the option that is named network.prefetch-next and double-click on it.
      3. Change the value to false.

      However, that didn't seem to have any affect on Pay Pal showing up. I'm still getting the "400 Bad Request" message.
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  • Profile picture of the author LIndaB
    I think I've solved it. I just went into the Firefox privacy settings and removed all the Pay Pal cookies and now I'm getting in.
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  • Profile picture of the author kokopelli
    Did you restart FF after changing the prefetching setting?

    How about "pipelining"? That's another setting that can cause issues.

    Or, maybe, you have one of those "anonymizing" extensions that conceal/spoof/obfuscate your browser headers?
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  • Profile picture of the author Milo Odin
    In my opinion their is no doubt that firefox is best browser but their is also no doubt that firfox have lot of bugs other than any browser.
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  • Profile picture of the author Spock1
    Haven't the foggiest. It does seem better not to use Internet Explorer. Though for Skype it would seem better to use IE as they are now owned by Microsoft.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anthoni
    I have this trouble when I purchasing a thread or bump from the Warrior forum. You have to pay via Paypal, so I did. When coming back to Warrior Forum after purchase I got the exact same error. Thankfully everything went through properly, but it freaked me out LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author sam cox
    Clear your "History" and "Cache" then restart your System and After this Check you won't get this Problem again !
    i had been facing the same Problem !
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  • Profile picture of the author albertthomas
    Thanks to all of you for sharing this information.
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