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Tabs keep showing completely black screen

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I keep having a problem on when returning to a tab or someone when opening a link the page is simply shown as a black screen. It appears that the page is loaded in the background but literally nothing is displayed on screen.

Refreshing does nothing. Navigating to a different page does nothing (as in the screen is still black, but Firefox goes through the motions of "loading" the page). Searching does the same.

If I close the tan and then immediately hit undo the page will often be displayed.

This has been going on for maybe 2/3 months now and I have updated the application and my phone multiple times; both are up to do.

I can only assume this is a bug at the stage, but if someone has insight into a work around, that would be great.

Example image showing the page being "loaded" but nothing displayed.

I keep having a problem on when returning to a tab or someone when opening a link the page is simply shown as a black screen. It appears that the page is loaded in the background but literally nothing is displayed on screen. Refreshing does nothing. Navigating to a different page does nothing (as in the screen is still black, but Firefox goes through the motions of "loading" the page). Searching does the same. If I close the tan and then immediately hit undo the page will often be displayed. This has been going on for maybe 2/3 months now and I have updated the application and my phone multiple times; both are up to do. I can only assume this is a bug at the stage, but if someone has insight into a work around, that would be great. Example image showing the page being "loaded" but nothing displayed.
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Modified by Thom Andrews

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Thisjis getting worse. Is there no support here?

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Hi

What level of enhanced tracking protection do you have set in Firefox for Android? Do you have any add-ons installed?

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Paul said

Hi What level of enhanced tracking protection do you have set in Firefox for Android? Do you have any add-ons installed?

Hi Paul,

I have the enhanced tracking protection set to standard (default), and addons wise just HTTPS Everywhere (which perhaps is a little defunct now that Firefox has the feature built in) and AdGuard AdBlocker.

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I have the same problem on two devices, both have no add-ons and standard level of protection