diff --git a/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js b/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
index 70acf48f66b..9ffa0cc12e0 100644
--- a/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
+++ b/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js
@@ -215,15 +215,15 @@ pref("network.hosts.smtp_server",           "mail");
 pref("network.hosts.pop_server",            "mail");
 
 // ruslan:
-// pref("network.http.version", "1.1");
-// pref("network.http.version", "1.0");	// default
+pref("network.http.version", "1.1");	// comment this out in case of problems
+// pref("network.http.version", "1.0");
 // pref("network.http.version", "0.9"); // it'll work too if you're crazy
 // keep-alive option is effectively obsolete, as we want to use http/1.1 by
 // default eventually. Nevertheless it'll work with some older 1.0 servers
 // pref("network.http.keep-alive", true);
 // pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 120);
-// Enable http compression:
-// pref("network.http.accept-encoding", "gzip,deflate,compress,identity");
+// Enable http compression: comment this out in case of problems with 1.1
+pref("network.http.accept-encoding", "gzip,deflate,compress,identity");
 
 // sspitzer:  change this back to "news" when we get to beta.
 // for now, set this to news.mozilla.org because you can only