All pages are empty(All the pages are blank) - a drawing depicting a man holding a book in his hand and surprised that all the pages in it are blank.

Origin

The original drawing of the guy holding the book is from an article on WikiHow. The material entitled “How to Make a Presentation Fun” appeared on August 14, 2012. The original title on the book was “Ethics in Business.”

In 2017, there was a trend for absurd memes made up of drawings from the WikiHow website. In July, a microcomic about a woman who... And in September they became infected with the virus, which they feed on pills.

The first meme about the book appeared on July 24, 2017 on the page in Facebook, dedicated to funny pictures from WikiHow. This variant contained the caption “All the pages are blank WTF” (“All the pages are blank, what the hell”), which determined the tone of the meme.

The meme with a man and a book reached its peak of popularity in mid-September, when similar pictures began to appear on Reddit. Users simply came up with their own titles on the cover of the book, while the inscription “All pages are blank” remained unchanged.

Meaning

The “all pages are blank” meme is similar to another meme made from stills from a retro Spiderman cartoon. Some versions also had blank pages.

Another similar meme circulated on Twitter in the summer of 2017.

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This technique has been used in other viral images. It symbolizes something that doesn't actually exist. In the story, the character is going to read a book on some topic, but when he opens it, he sees that all the pages are blank. The meme achieves a comic effect by replacing the title of the book with something abstract and everyday, such as “The Meaning of Life” or “List of Girls I’ve Had Sex with.”

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We all know very well that to access the Internet you need some kind of browser, for example, Google Chrome. But at times, you may encounter the “Blank Pages” problem in Google Chrome. Simply put, whenever you open your browser, you have the opportunity to see a completely blank page (white screen) that will not have any address in the address bar, or it will say “about:blank” in the address bar. In some cases, your browser will work just fine until you open something related to Google and then...you will see a white page. Sometimes you will stumble upon the problem of white pages only when using Incognito mode in the browser. And the last scenario is that white or empty pages can manifest themselves when visiting resources such as social networks, blogs and the like.

There are truly a huge number of scenarios in which the problem with blank pages will occur. And the range of reasons that can give rise to these scenarios is just as huge. Sometimes one of your extensions may be causing the blank pages issue. In some cases, the cause of blank pages may be a damaged History file. In the worst case scenario, it's a virus.

Since there are a huge number of causes for the problem, we recommend that you go through all the solution methods that we will post below.

Diagnosis of problems

The first thing to do is clear your browser's cache and cookies. In most cases, this is what solves many problems. So try this step before jumping directly into the methods themselves.

• Open Google Chrome.
• Press the key combination CTRL + SHIFT + DELETE
• Check the boxes next to the items “Browsing history”, “Cookies and other site and plugin data” And “Images and other files saved in cache”.
• Select “Remove the following items - all time.”
• Press "Clear the history".

Method #1 Disabling extensions

Disabling your extensions may help solve the mystery in this sticky situation. If disabling all extensions helps, then that was definitely the problem. To find out which of the extensions caused “blank” pages, you need to connect each of them one by one.

• Open Google Chrome.
• Press "Additional Tools".
• Select "Extensions".
• Now uncheck all extensions that have the option "Enabled".

Method #2 Disabling hardware acceleration

Disabling Hardware Acceleration may also resolve the blank pages issue, so try these steps to disable it.

• Open Google Chrome.
• Click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the browser window.
• Click on "Settings".
• Scroll to the very bottom of the page and click on "Show advanced settings".
• Uncheck the option “Use hardware acceleration (if available)” under the System section.

Method No. 3 Administrator rights

Running as Administrator sometimes helps get rid of the problem of white or empty pages in Google Chrome. It's hard to consider this a complete solution, but it might work. This is especially useful if you cannot access absolutely any pages.

Method #4 Changing the folder for History

If the cause of the blank pages is a corrupted Google Chrome History folder, renaming the folder may resolve the issue.

• Open Google Chrome.
• Enter chrome://version in your browser's Address bar and press Enter.
• Pay attention to "Path to profile". Copy the address specified there by right-clicking on it and selecting "Copy".
• Press the key combination Win+E
• Left-click on the Address bar of the window that opens, then right-click and select "Insert".
• Find the file in this folder History and rename it to tmp.
• Restart your Google Chrome browser.

Method #5 Reinstalling Google Chrome

Reinstalling the software may fix the problem if it was an issue with the browser itself. Before you start uninstalling Google Chrome, make sure it has been closed. If you don't know how to do this, here's a small example.

• Press the key combination CTRL+ALT+DELETE
• Select "Task Manager".
• Now make sure that no Google Chrome processes are open. If something is present, complete the process by right-clicking and selecting "Cancel task".

Now you can safely start reinstalling Google Chrome. Often, open processes of the program being removed will interfere with the uninstallation process. This is why it is very important to close them all. As soon as you install your browser again, test it for blank pages.

Method #6 Resizing Google Chrome Window

In some of the most desperate cases, you are not able to open any browser pages, which also include pages such as settings, extensions and similar examples. These pages may open for a few seconds and then turn blank or white. As you might have guessed, in this case even changing some browser settings is quite problematic.

To solve this problem, you can try resizing your browser window. Yes, it's that simple. Resize the window with your mouse and see if the situation with empty pages changes.

Method #7 Renaming files

• Press the key combination Win+E to open Windows Explorer.
• Type in the folder's Address bar C:\Windows\Prefetch.
• Now find the files named EXE-xxxxxxxx.pf, where xxxxxxxx are the designations of random numbers.
• Rename all these files to whatever you want, literally.
• Now restart Google Chrome.

If these steps did not help, then let's move on to slightly different actions.

• Press the key combination Win+E to open Windows Explorer.
• Enter in the address bar C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application
• Find the file in the folder chrome.exe and rename it.

If this step didn’t work, then here’s another small guide.

• Find the Google Chrome shortcut on your desktop.
• If you don't have one, then make one. Don't know how? Just go to your Google Chrome folder, find the executable file, right-click on it and select “Send to – Desktop(create shortcut)”.
• Go to "Properties" created shortcut.
• Go to the tab "Label".
• Put it in the column "An object" meaning “chrome.exe” “-no-sandbox”(along with parentheses).
• Then click "Apply" And "OK".

After following the above steps, your Chrome should work fine.

The note: this method is not secure and makes your computer less secure. Use it at your own risk.

Method #8 Checking compatibility

Sometimes your browser may be set to run in compatibility mode, which causes the above issue. The solution is to disable this mode.

• Right click on the executable file and select "Properties".
• Go to the tab "Compatibility".
• Make sure the option "Run the program in compatibility mode" does not have a checkmark.
• Click "Apply" And "OK".

Method #9 Renaming the Default folder

• Press the key combination Win+R.
• Enter in the search bar %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\ and press Enter.
• Delete or rename the folder named Default. For example, you can rename it to a rather classic version - Default.old 3

Such problems are not at all uncommon. Users quite often may encounter the fact that Yandex browser does not respond or does not open the necessary pages. There are a fairly large number of possible reasons, and this article discusses the most common of them.

The following settings may cause your browser to crash:

• No internet connection.
• Infecting a personal computer with viruses.
• Hosts file
• Problems with DNS.
• Blocking of sites by the system administrator or firewall.
• Technical problems with the site itself.
• The system registry entry AppInit_DLLs is damaged.

This is a very broad and, at the same time, the most common reason why the Yandex browser takes a long time to load or does not open various sites at all. This may include:

• Technical work in the server part of the provider.
• Accident on the line.
• Damage to your home cable.
• System failure or router failure.
• Your computer's network card is damaged.
• Incorrectly installed network adapter drivers.

To diagnose this problem, users need to look at the network connection icon in the tray. If there is a yellow "!" - an exclamation point or a red "X" - a cross, which means that there really are problems with the network.

In this case, not only the Yandex browser will stop working, but also all other programs that require an Internet connection. Users in this case can try the following steps:

• Inspect the patch cord coming from the router for physical damage.
• Reboot the router to prevent it from freezing.
• Restart your computer - in some cases this may help. For example, if a Windows service required for network operation has frozen.
• Call the technical support service of your Internet provider and leave a request about the problems that have arisen.

Most likely, two such files will be stored on your personal computer - in the “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” directory and in the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER” directory. The contents of both entries must be deleted.

Using the command line, users can try to solve two problems at once - clearing the DNS cache and clearing the list of static routes. Follow the few simple steps outlined in this step-by-step guide:

After these steps, you can close the console window and try opening a website again.

Hosts file

If none of the steps described above helped, and the Yandex browser still does not load Internet pages, you should pay attention to the “Hosts” system file and carefully study it. This text document contains the addresses of sites that the computer user cannot access. When you try to open such a website, the Yandex browser will redirect you to the “localhost” service page (or any other, depending on the settings).

Open the program for working with files and folders in Windows – Explorer. You can do this from the Start menu icon, from a desktop shortcut, or from the folder icon on the Quick Access toolbar.

Open the partition of the hard drive on which the operating system is installed. Go to the "Windows" directory. Here you need to find the “System32” directory. Go to the internal “Drivers” folder, and then to the “ect” directory. Here is the file you need called “hosts”. Open it using Notepad.

Several lines will be written here, starting with the hash symbol “#”. Find a line that looks like “127.0.0.1 localhost”. It should be located at the very end of the document and be the only entry without a “#” hash. If you find anything else in this file, delete it, after copying the entire contents of the document to a safe place just in case.

Infecting your computer with virus programs

Although trivial, viruses are the most common cause of all computer problems. If your Yandex browser suddenly begins to work poorly (slows down, is glitchy, does not load pages, produces various errors) - perhaps its service files have been damaged by viruses.

It is worth remembering that a computer with Internet access is very vulnerable to virus attacks, which can await the user on a huge number of sites. Therefore, such a PC must be protected with a special anti-virus program that quickly blocks malicious scripts from entering the hard drive, prohibits their execution, and also finds and destroys viruses already existing in the operating system.

If you do not have any anti-virus protection utility installed on your PC, it is strongly recommended that you download one, install it, and immediately run a full system scan. For example, you can use software from Microsoft called Security Essentials. It can be downloaded by following this link https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/download/details.aspx?id=5201.

Problems on the site itself

Finally, it is worth noting that if only one specific resource loads poorly in your Yandex browser, most likely there are no problems on your side. It is likely that the site is simply undergoing scheduled maintenance or equipment changes.

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Sometimes it happens that Firefox repeatedly opens new, empty windows or tabs after you click on some link, and you are forced to close Firefox. The same empty windows or tabs may appear again as soon as you reopen Firefox if the previous session has been restored.

This usually happens because you have selected Firefox to be used constantly for certain actions, such as opening a certain type of file or launching an application to send email.

Reset actions for all content types

If the previous steps failed to resolve the issue, or if you cannot find the problematic item in the Applications panel, you will have to reset all actions for all items by manually deleting the file containing these settings.

This will remove all set actions for items, not just those that are causing problems. You will have to make these changes again if you decide to take these steps.

Check for viruses

If the problem persists, or if Firefox opens multiple tabs or windows with inappropriate content, you can assume that your computer may have been infected.