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All pages changed to "view-source:about:blank"

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QC
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My cat walked across my computer keyboard and hit something, and now all the tabs I had open say "view-source:about:blank" in the URL bar and then show nothing but a blank page.

My cat walked across my computer keyboard and hit something, and now all the tabs I had open say "view-source:about:blank" in the URL bar and then show nothing but a blank page.

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I managed to fix it--when I did "bookmark all tabs" it still had them as their real pages, so now I can just go to the bookmarks.

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philipp
philipp
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hi, welcome to the world of cat-induced errors in tech support :))

unfortunately i'm not really sure what might have happened there, but one way you could try in order to recover, is refreshing firefox: Refresh Firefox - reset add-ons and settings

QC
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I tried that and they're still blank.

QC
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I managed to fix it--when I did "bookmark all tabs" it still had them as their real pages, so now I can just go to the bookmarks.