diff --git a/mozilla/browser/app/profile/all.js b/mozilla/browser/app/profile/all.js
index e6819027354..a227b4dc0f1 100644
--- a/mozilla/browser/app/profile/all.js
+++ b/mozilla/browser/app/profile/all.js
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader",      2); // 0=don't send any, 1=send only
 pref("network.http.redirection-limit", 20);
 
 // Enable http compression: comment this out in case of problems with 1.1
-pref("network.http.accept-encoding" ,"gzip,deflate,compress;q=0.9");
+pref("network.http.accept-encoding" ,"gzip,deflate");
 
 pref("network.http.pipelining"      , false);
 pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", false);
diff --git a/mozilla/browser/app/profile/firebird.js b/mozilla/browser/app/profile/firebird.js
index e6819027354..a227b4dc0f1 100644
--- a/mozilla/browser/app/profile/firebird.js
+++ b/mozilla/browser/app/profile/firebird.js
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader",      2); // 0=don't send any, 1=send only
 pref("network.http.redirection-limit", 20);
 
 // Enable http compression: comment this out in case of problems with 1.1
-pref("network.http.accept-encoding" ,"gzip,deflate,compress;q=0.9");
+pref("network.http.accept-encoding" ,"gzip,deflate");
 
 pref("network.http.pipelining"      , false);
 pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", false);