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For some reason, I can't view the following webpage:

http://areweb.berkeley.edu/courses/EEP118/current/problemsets/

I asked a windows-using friend, and it works for them. When I try it, I get the following:

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Anybody know what is causing this and how to fix?

EDIT: A deleted answer suggested that I "UA Spoofer" (a thing that pretends that I am using a different browser). Weirdly, this works, but only if I switch browsers every time I load a new page of the main site. Is this a clue for what is going on?

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  • Install Live HTTP Headers to firefox. Then open it from the Tools menu. Load the website. Post the captured HTTP headers here.
    – falconer
    Jan 14, 2014 at 12:26
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    It's a Webpage generated from a MS Word document. I've heard it's one of the worst html-generators in the history of human kind :P
    – MadMike
    Jan 14, 2014 at 12:28

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It could be that you're missing the fonts required to display that webpage, usually missing fonts for a webpage are substituted by equivalent ones but looks like this is not possible for that webpage. Depending on your Ubuntu version you should install the package msttcorefonts or ttf-mscorefonts-installer to get the Microsoft fonts.

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  • Thanks for the suggestion, but I have ttf-mscorefonts-installer installed. Annoyingly, the page is written in comic sans... Jan 14, 2014 at 10:26
  • What is the message that you get under the 'X'?
    – Antonio
    Jan 14, 2014 at 10:34
  • "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt" Jan 14, 2014 at 10:36
  • And you get the same message for all 3 browsers (Firefox/Chromium/Midori)? P.S.: The UA Spoofer thing is even more puzzling, it's not a matter of using Windows anyway, I can see the webpage with Firefox and Chromium on Ubuntu 13.10
    – Antonio
    Jan 14, 2014 at 10:59
  • Yes. The only thing that worked was the UA spoofer in chromium, and even that requires a DIFFERENT spoof browser each time I go to a new page under the overall site. Its weird! Jan 14, 2014 at 11:01
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First install the following:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

And then try again, if you still can´t use the following browser:

http://midori-browser.org/download/ubuntu/

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  • Thanks, but neither of these worked for me either! Jan 14, 2014 at 10:37

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