So, the ".gz" thing is a little weird, but also not entirely unsurprising. 
Let me explain. To keep our bandwidth usage down, improve site speed, and not torque off our hosting company for using too much transfer, I have gzip compression turned on for all of the pages on the site. So, the HTML that your computer would normally receive is gzipped up and sent over the wire with the header, "Content-Encoding: gzip". Your web browser is supposed to then unzip the content to display it. If your browser doesn't support compression, it's supposed to tell the web server this, and then it doesn't compress the content.
That it's not working suggests a few possibilities. Incorrectly configured proxy servers and web content filters can do things like claim they support compression when they don't, and thereby spit a ".gz" file at you when they see compressed content. A damaged web browser could also be misbehaving; you could try a different one or repair Chrome, as Gharen notes. Finally, there could be malware interfering with your Internet access. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is another good option to clean stuff like that out.
A final possibility is that our hosting provider did something weird to our service, but I haven't gotten any change notifications and others aren't reporting this issue, so I'm a little doubtful of that.
Let me explain. To keep our bandwidth usage down, improve site speed, and not torque off our hosting company for using too much transfer, I have gzip compression turned on for all of the pages on the site. So, the HTML that your computer would normally receive is gzipped up and sent over the wire with the header, "Content-Encoding: gzip". Your web browser is supposed to then unzip the content to display it. If your browser doesn't support compression, it's supposed to tell the web server this, and then it doesn't compress the content.That it's not working suggests a few possibilities. Incorrectly configured proxy servers and web content filters can do things like claim they support compression when they don't, and thereby spit a ".gz" file at you when they see compressed content. A damaged web browser could also be misbehaving; you could try a different one or repair Chrome, as Gharen notes. Finally, there could be malware interfering with your Internet access. MalwareBytes Anti-Malware is another good option to clean stuff like that out.
A final possibility is that our hosting provider did something weird to our service, but I haven't gotten any change notifications and others aren't reporting this issue, so I'm a little doubtful of that.
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