Question: I am using sugarCRM at my localhost.

For no apparent reason firefox is viewing the page in Quirks mode (the login page). This is completely messing up the page, here is a sample of the data shown:

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I thought this might be the server's fault (apache) but if I use Epiphany I can see the page perfectly. When I see the pages info, I see that the render mode is in quirks mode.

Is there any way to force it to use the Standards compliance mode?

I am on ubuntu 9.10 using Firefox 3.5 (I also tried 3.0.15, same thing happened) I disabled all the extension and I still got the same page. A friend tried viewing it with Chrome and the same thing happened :(

Answer: 
Couldn't it be an encoding issue? E.g., your Apache sends

```
Content-Type: text/html; charset=Big5

```

but your HTML page is simply ASCII. Then you get gibberish as that. If you know your HTML encoding, try "View" -> "Character Encoding" in FF and switch back and forth a bit.

Alternatively, look at Apache's httpd.conf and search for the

```
AddDefaultCharset

```

setting.
Are you using PHP 5.3? It may be the reason.
What is your Sugar version?