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Steam error

Steam -130

On screen: Failed to load web page (unknown error) — Error Code: -130

This one is on your side

This error is produced locally. It does not appear because the service is down, so the fixes below are worth working through in order.

What it actually means

This is not a Steam platform code. It comes from the Chromium browser embedded in the Steam client, with the sign inverted: Steam's -130 is Chromium's ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED.

Chromium's description: could not create a connection to the proxy server. Something on your machine is routing the client's browser through a proxy that is not answering.

Which means the rest of Steam is very likely working. Your library opens, your games launch, and a part of the client that happens to be a web browser cannot load a page.

How to tell which one you have

Check your system proxy settings. If a proxy is configured and you did not configure it, something installed it — a VPN client, a security product or a so-called optimiser. Turning it off and retrying is the whole test.

Fixes, in the order worth trying

  1. Turn off the system proxy — Including any automatic configuration script. On Windows this is in Settings under Network, Proxy.
  2. Disable VPN software — Many VPN clients install a proxy and leave it behind when disconnected.
  3. Remove proxy or accelerator extensions and tools — Anything advertising faster downloads or lower ping is a candidate.
  4. Delete the client's web browser data
  5. Reset Winsock — netsh winsock reset from an administrator prompt, then reboot. Last resort, and it clears leftover network hooks.

Steam's client embeds a Chromium browser, and these numbered codes are Chromium's own network errors with the sign flipped. We verified each one against Chromium's error list rather than guessing. That is why the on-screen message is the same unhelpful line for all of them while the causes are completely different — and why most of them mean Steam is working fine. Valve publishes no article for this code. Worth knowing: Valve publishes no status page of its own. The link in their own support article now redirects to a sales chart. That gap is why we measure Steam ourselves, by probing its public endpoints every five minutes.

Common questions

What does Steam -130 mean?

This is not a Steam platform code. It comes from the Chromium browser embedded in the Steam client, with the sign inverted: Steam's -130 is Chromium's ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED.

Is Steam -130 an outage?

This error is produced locally. It does not appear because the service is down, so the fixes below are worth working through in order.

How do I fix Steam -130?

Start with: Turn off the system proxy. Including any automatic configuration script. On Windows this is in Settings under Network, Proxy.