diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e21cc768d..f5c2b798e 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2001-08-20  Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
+	* config.inc.php3: $cfgProtectBlob is now TRUE by default, to help
+	  against the blob data corruption of some browsers
+
 2001-08-20  Loïc Chapeaux  <lolo@phpheaven.net>
 	* db_details.php3; tbl_properties.php3; tbl_dump.php3; lib.inc.php3;
 	  lang/*:
diff --git a/config.inc.php3 b/config.inc.php3
index c674fb2b6..b9ef16c22 100755
--- a/config.inc.php3
+++ b/config.inc.php3
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ unset($cfgServers[0]);
 $cfgConfirm               = TRUE;   // confirm 'DROP TABLE' & 'DROP DATABASE'
 $cfgPersistentConnections = FALSE;  // use persistent connections to MySQL database
 $cfgShowBlob              = FALSE;  // display blob field contents in browse mode
-$cfgProtectBlob		      = FALSE;  // disallow editing of blob fields in edit mode
+$cfgProtectBlob		  = TRUE;  // disallow editing of blob fields in edit mode
 $cfgShowSQL               = TRUE;   // show SQL queries as run
 $cfgSkipLockedTables      = FALSE;  // mark used tables, make possible to show
                                     // locked tables (since MySQL 3.23.30)