diff --git a/brozzler/browser.py b/brozzler/browser.py
index 8e6b083..f61a800 100644
--- a/brozzler/browser.py
+++ b/brozzler/browser.py
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ class Browser:
 
     def configure_browser(self, extra_headers=None, user_agent=None):
         headers = extra_headers or {}
-        headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'identity'
+        headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip'  # avoid encodings br, sdch
         self.send_to_chrome(
                 method='Network.setExtraHTTPHeaders',
                 params={'headers': headers})
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5fda79d..1f835d8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b12.dev273',
+        version='1.1b12.dev274',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',