Panic! Facebook is not loading. I just encountered something that Facebook users probably experience as well from time to time. Tried to open the Facebook website directly in the Firefox web browser only to be greeted with a blank page. No content was displayed at all. Tried reloading the page with Ctrl-F5 but the blank page appeared again.
Switched then to Google Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer to see if the Facebook page was loading in those browsers. Chrome did load the page fine, Internet Explorer displayed a cannot display webpage error and Opera did load it fine as well.
Chance is that if it is working in at least one browser on your system it is not your PC that is causing the problems. It can still be a firewall rule obviously or a browser plugin but if you have not made any changes to those programs or settings recently it is likely that Facebook has a delivery problem.
The source code of the blank page was also blank, no information given whatsoever.
There are two options basically. Use the browser the site is loading fine in or wait until Facebook resolves the issue (once you figured out that it is not your computer that is repsonsible for the blank page)
And guess what. It took only two minutes before the Facebook page was loading fine once again in the Firefox web browser.
Here are a few things that you can do to analyze the problem further:
- Clear the web browser cache completely, restart the browser
- Run the browser without add-ons and plugins
- Check if other sites load, check if https://www.facebook.com/ loads
Have you ever encountered a blank page when you wanted to access Facebook? How did you resolve the issue?
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I just experiencet the same problem. But I just pressed F5 few times and everything’s all right..
using https instead of http seems to work pretty well in this situation.
good tip, that seems to have fixed it. i’m not sure what happened but suddenly the site stopped working in chrome and firefox both. oh well this will work for now
OMG thanks so much I have spent days trying to fix blank pages loading in facebook and done every fix possible with no success. Just added the s to http: and fixed it! can’t believe it was so easy!
Thanks Martin, using https help.
Bro… are you using Google public DNS? I also had the same problem… i had problems with many sites, but after i changed my DNS from Google to automatic… everything went fine!
I have the same problem :) I just w8 for few mins, then it restores the connection -_-
Jesus. Get a grip people.
yes because we are all clearly freaking out…
I had the same problem too with Chrome but not IE, when i have reboot my modem, all is coming back ,like before
I can’t resist to reply. Is this blog run by a 15 years old? Oh no, facebook is down! I lost all my 500+ friends! The world has just ended for me.
you mad bro?
everytime i login every thing is blank the home page my profile page i just dont no wot to do
Sometimes people want to know for the sake of being aware of certain viruses and malware that other people may be familiar with, don’t degrade this into some troll thread, people google this for a legitimate fix.
Yep, I was worried about being hacked, so I searched for this problem and came across this site. Losing FB is not the end of the world, but I actually do really need the email to cancel plans – so thanks!
Thanks so much omfg you dont know how much i aprriciate it ive beeen trying to fix it for days and i just did https and it worked you are god i love you now
yea using https:// fixed it right a way no need to do any thing else
thanx Martin https worked 4 me
This solved my issue. Thank you!
error
https:// did not help me, I got to install new version av Internet Explorer (IE 9) , then it worked agian
https.com worked for me too. Thanks
it didnt work for me :/ it says “Sorry, something went wrong.
We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.”
wtf does that mean :/
thank you!
typing manually https:// in FF allows the page loading – on the next click I loose https:// again … manually I can fix and so on…
in safari I only loose the “s”, manual fix possible – but this not the way browsing should be.
any help appreciated very very much!
thank you
bye
armin