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Firefox appears completely blank

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Firefox is able to open normally, however no site is able to load, the entire screen below the search bar appears blank. It appears that sites never begin loading. This also applies to the firefox settings and any pdf. I have tried both regular and nightly. It is likely I accidentally removed some important file within windows, but using a system restore did not help. I have also tried opening with safe mode with no success.

Firefox is able to open normally, however no site is able to load, the entire screen below the search bar appears blank. It appears that sites never begin loading. This also applies to the firefox settings and any pdf. I have tried both regular and nightly. It is likely I accidentally removed some important file within windows, but using a system restore did not help. I have also tried opening with safe mode with no success.
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