The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
load without issue.

What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.

Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.

Is anyone else getting this problem?

On 17/10/2022 16:02, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
> plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
> load without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
> usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
> successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
> refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?
May be worth clearing the cache. Had some very odd issues that were
fixed by that.

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Harry Bloomfield Esq <a@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote:

> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook, plus
> probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always load
> without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the usual
> motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been successfully
> loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click refresh and
> sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?
>
>
>

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Yes, It cannot even be read by a screenreader, so the text is not actually
there. Always a good plan to have more than one browser.
I've heard good things about Brave, but here I have FF, Waterfox and Edge.
You would be surprised at the difference between what you get on the same
pages. In my case for example Edge makes Google meets usable, the other two
have sub menus or clickable elements that fail to work for me in addition to
the blank issue.
I have also a suspicion that FFs add ons sometimes can cause these issues,
as they are not made by MOzilla, so a tiny change in coding could easily
give problems.
Brian

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> Yes, don't know cure.
>
>
> Harry Bloomfield Esq <a@harrym1byt.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
>> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
>> plus
>> probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always load
>> without issue.
>>
>> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
>> usual
>> motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
>> successfully
>> loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click refresh and
>> sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>>
>> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>>
>> Is anyone else getting this problem?
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> braind

On 17/10/2022 16:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> May be worth clearing the cache.  Had some very odd issues that were
> fixed by that.

That seems to have fixed it, but the MOT site is still not loading at
full speed. It still shows up as if it has finished loading, but with a
blank white page, then a few seconds later the content shows up. At
least it works now.

On 18/10/2022 11:09, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> On 17/10/2022 16:29, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> May be worth clearing the cache.  Had some very odd issues that were
>> fixed by that.
>
> That seems to have fixed it, but the MOT site is still not loading at
> full speed. It still shows up as if it has finished loading, but with a
> blank white page, then a few seconds later the content shows up. At
> least it works now.

That is probably because half the content is actually on some other
server that is dead slow, and at some point in the past was so slow that
it timed out so firefox stupidly cached a blank page...

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that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.

On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 4:02:49 PM UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
> plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
> load without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
> usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
> successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
> refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?

It did that to me with Facebook for about two months and then sorted itself out, Google was no help.

Jonathan

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:06:13 -0700, Jonathan wrote:

> On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 4:02:49 PM UTC+1, Harry Bloomfield Esq
> wrote:
>> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
>> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
>> plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
>> load without issue.
>>
>> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
>> usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
>> successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
>> refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes
>> not.
>>
>> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>>
>> Is anyone else getting this problem?
>
> It did that to me with Facebook for about two months and then sorted
> itself out, Google was no help.

I have had this, and it turned out to be an MTU problem. I made a slight
MTU adjustment somewhere and it all went away.

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On 18/10/2022 15:25, Bob Eager wrote:
> I have had this, and it turned out to be an MTU problem. I made a slight
> MTU adjustment somewhere and it all went away.

That is a bug in a router somewhere. I thought we had seen the last of
'MTU makes it work' 15 years ago!

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On 16:02 17 Oct 2022, Harry Bloomfield Esq said:

> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
> plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
> load without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
> usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
> successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
> refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?

Perhapps it's worth checking if FFx is set to override fonts and colours.

On 19/10/2022 18:22, Pamela wrote:
> Perhapps it's worth checking if FFx is set to override fonts and colours.

No, I don't have FFx installed.

On 18:10 20 Oct 2022, Harry Bloomfield Esq said:

> On 19/10/2022 18:22, Pamela wrote:
>> Perhapps it's worth checking if FFx is set to override fonts and
>> colours.
>
> No, I don't have FFx installed.

FFx = Firefox.

On 10/17/2022 11:02 AM, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages, from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook, plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always load without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?

Here's a kooky cause.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/qamvo6/suddenly_only_blank_pages/

"VCRUNTIME140_1.dll missing"

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox

Name: vcruntime140.dll <== Mozilla has this inside their installer, and put it here
Size: 87888 bytes (85 KiB)
SHA1: D247F5B9D4D3061E3D421E0E623595AA40D9493C

Maybe, somehow, the program is picking up a newer or patched
version of that, from a place other than the Program Files area.

Try rebooting the computer, then retest Firefox first, before
doing anything else. That's in case an automatic update had a hand
in this.

Firefox comes in two versions, a 32-bit version and a 64-bit version.
Some people have "shards" of install material from one, which are
no longer the active or useful one. You will find all sorts of
messes on computers, depending on how long the OS has been in
usage.

Mozilla even did a cheeky thing once, and put 64-bit executables
in a 32-bit folder. It was part of some clever "transition plan"
where they needs space to store stuff, and just decided a
"dumpster is as good as any place".

In any case, view your C:\Program Files and your C:\Program Files (x86)
and make sure one copy is working for you.

*******

On an unrelated note, when you see these in the Program Files

api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll 19,136 bytes

that is a "re-director" DLL. It's not a real DLL and has no code in it.
What it does, is map between routine names, so that the program finds
the names suited to the situation.

It's another layer of DLL hell, when it isn't working right

The one in the Firefox folder, do not normally cause a problem.

It's some other (smaller) software companies, who don't know
how to pack and install the right ones. I've even run into
error messages, where the "missing" api-* DLL, simply does not exist
on planet Earth. You can't find the name anywhere in search engines.
And unless you can solve the problem, the program won't run without it.

Paul

On 17/10/2022 16:02, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
> The past few weeks, Firefox has been struggling to load certain pages,
> from some sources, such as the gov.uk MOT checking site and Facebook,
> plus probably other site I have yet to try to use. Other sites always
> load without issue.
>
> What seems to happen is the URL is entered, Firefox goes through the
> usual motions of loading a page, everything shows the page has been
> successfully loaded, but the page itself is just blank white. Click
> refresh and sometimes it does properly load the contents, sometimes not.
>
> Try another browser and the same pages load perfectly.
>
> Is anyone else getting this problem?

Works fine for me, including just now.

Win 10/32 Pro + Firefox 104.0.01