Safari Opens Remembers Tabs Previously Open No Content

Hello.
Anyone else seeing an issue where Safari it re-opened after restarting or a crash and the formerly open number of tabs open, the tab titles on the Window are as they were previously, but the address bar and content are both blank? If you select one of the empty tabs the formerly opened website's titile appears on the Window bar at the top of Safari.
See the address bar and note the page is just white empty space, but to preservre space I did not include the entire window.
Thanks.

Try troubleshooting extensions and third party plug-ins.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that off if there are any installed. Quit and relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, turn extensions back on then uninstall one a time to test.
If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.
Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect:  Allow all other plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.
If you can't resolve the issue, the next time Safari crashes, copy and paste the entire crash report in your Reply. That should reveal what's causing the problem.

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