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"Invalid HTTP Request Headers" in Firefox

Date: 9/1/2015
Tags: firefox

For most of 2014 I've been using Firefox because I feel it's doing a better job of looking after my privacy. However it's not without it's cost. For instance today I found some pretty quirky behaviour in the Mac build of Firefox v34.0.5:

Basically on this site it's dropping the leading "G" of the "GET" request. To make matters worse the problem is intermittent. I can reproduce with a clear cache. Internally Firebug is reporting the correct packet, but Wireshark shows the missing byte.

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