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Youtube stopped working until I restarted the computer. that's a new one to me.
I can't believe that the year is 2026 and that's still one of the prime troubleshooting things: does this behavior persist through a reboot. doesn't matter how nonsensical it seems. See if the fire and the Cherenkov glow disappear if you reboot the damn thing.
@ChateauErin Hmm, YouTube does this (or something similar) to me from time to time, but only with specific videos. If I load that URL in a new window, I just see an empty white page, but if I load it in a private window, everything displays correctly. I assumed it was Google doing gross A/B testing in production
@Cheeseness I wasn't clear; the white pages were every tab I had loaded already, across many domains, including this Mastodon tab. Actually in a different window (and I presume different processes but I don't know the process mechanics that well) than the Youtube tabs. White tabs got solved just by closing and reopening the window, for now.
@ChateauErin Ah, right right. Bizarre!
huh. Just had to close and re-open one of the windows too; tabs that were already loaded were just rendering as white, with a little black dot in the upper left corner (which maybe was the entire contents of the page all going to 0,0? idk)
This might be Firefox's death rattle for me. sigh.